[FairfieldLife] Re: Spotify's list of 10 misquoted songs

2013-07-12 Thread doctordumbass
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 wrote: > > How many of these did you misquote? In some cases the bands

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spotify's list of 10 misquoted songs

2013-07-12 Thread card
"Misheard" English by Hullu-jussi (Mad-john): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2mP7azLLY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Pays artists or publishers? iTunes would be paying the record publisher > in most cases unless the artist is a self-publisher. Same should be >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spotify's list of 10 misquoted songs

2013-07-13 Thread doctordumbass
I work with a distributor, who makes my music available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, etc. The amounts received by the distributor are passed onto me transparently. The distributor's profit comes from the amount charged for each album's distribution, and also the cut they take from direct sales. S

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spotify's list of 10 misquoted songs

2013-07-12 Thread Bhairitu
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spotify's list of 10 misquoted songs

2013-07-14 Thread Bhairitu
Having been in the arts all these years and still very much involved in content management issues there are always different ideas about how to make money in it. For video, it ranges from as high as paying $10 to watch a movie streaming that has not yet play in theaters and will probably only