Pays artists or publishers? iTunes would be paying the record publisher in most cases unless the artist is a self-publisher. Same should be true for Spotify. Artists were generally screwed by record companies anyway. Recordings have long been thought of as a way to get people to your concerts where you make the real money though back in the day one could make some good money on record and mechanical royalties. As a musician I was amazed at how important people thought music was when Napster popped up. You'd think they wouldn't have cut the arts from the school curriculum.
On 07/12/2013 12:34 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: > Spotify pays artists 8/1000th's of a cent(!), as a royalty per song sale. > That compares to iTunes, which pays about 70 cents per song. Cheap bastards > masquerading as hipsters. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> How many of these did you misquote? In some cases the bands I was in >> liked to misquote and often with even worse misquotes. :-D >> >> http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/07/11/spotify-wrong-song-lyrics/2506899/ >> > >