{"id":24282,"date":"2018-06-18T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/?p=24282"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:12:00","slug":"musicians-have-always-been-ripped-off-heres-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/musicians-have-always-been-ripped-off-heres-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians have always been ripped off &#8211; here\u2019s how to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The music industry\u2019s business model has always been broken. For over 100 years artists have been paid a fraction of the earnings that their music makes. Take <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enrico_Caruso\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrico Caruso<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Italian opera singer from the early 1900\u2019s, credited with being one of the very first recorded artists. Over his lifetime he made over 488 recordings, almost exclusively for Victor, a record label now known as RCA and owned by Sony Music. While it is said that this made Caruso extremely rich, netting him nearly $2 million, his label scooped nearly twice that and is still making money from his recordings today.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many think the golden age of vinyl and CD\u2019s was a time when artists were fairly compensated, but even then musicians weren\u2019t exactly raking it in. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100712\/23482610186.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests that, when records were still popular, of every $1,000 of albums sold, 18% went to the musicians, 63% to the record label, and 24% to distributors. Meaning each artist got a grand total of $23.40. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then along came the Internet.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Times They Are A-Changin\u2019<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/596309\/print?Story_ID=596309\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Economist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, back in 1997 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was looking for online retail opportunities. He considered selling music but quickly realized there were only a few major music labels, and they would have the power to stifle any online venture that presented serious competition.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first online music sharing service, Napster, bypassed the record labels altogether and facilitated free peer-to-peer sharing of compressed music files. Obviously, that didn\u2019t work out for them, and it wasn\u2019t long before Napster found itself facing litigation from all angles. The company was closed by court order in 2001, after less than three years of operation. The Napster brand only survived because the company&#8217;s assets were liquidated and purchased by other companies through bankruptcy proceedings.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Free Money<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what changed to make online streaming services a viable business model for companies like Spotify and Apple Music? <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer is\u2026. nothing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musicians are not earning more now, despite having a new revenue channel. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotifyartists.com\/spotify-explained\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify admits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0that the average per-stream payout to rights holders lands somewhere between $0.006 and $0.0084. As this model shows, an artist would need to get 200k plays per month on Apple Music and 230K plays to earn the US minimum wage.<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24287 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Capture-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1015\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Capture-5.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Capture-5-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investors aren\u2019t getting rich either. Despite a revenue growth rate of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/12\/report-on-spotify-earnings-h1-2017-revenue-loss-margins-growth.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40% a year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 140 million monthly active users, Spotify reported a quarterly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/s22.q4cdn.com\/540910603\/files\/doc_financials\/quarterly\/2018\/Q1\/Shareholder-Letter-Q1-2018.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">operating loss of \u20ac41 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0[around $47,814,000] in May 2018. Jimmy Lovine, whose fledgling Beats Music service was acquired by Apple Music, warned last year that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/11\/29\/jimmy-iovine-streaming-business-spotify\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">music streaming is not a great business<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that there is no profit margin.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite losses, executive teams still brought home the bacon. Last year Spotify\u2019s executives earned, on average, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2017\/12\/07\/spotify-2017-tax-income\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1.34 million each<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the top five taking home over $26 million between them. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But by far the biggest winners are, unsurprisingly, the record labels. Last year the \u2018big three\u2019 made a record-breaking <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2017\/09\/05\/wmg-umg-sony-music-streaming-revenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$14.2 million a day from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The Universal Music Group alone <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2017\/02\/24\/umg-streaming-revenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made $4.5 million every 24 hours<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what can be done to fix this broken business model and ensure that artists receive fair compensation? Austrian producer and composer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rdbrandstaetter\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Brandstaetter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> believes he has the answer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStreaming services pay artists pennies, partly because so much is swallowed up by the record labels. Spotify isn\u2019t profitable, but the public won\u2019t support a price raise,\u201d says David, \u201cThe only way for artists and collaborators to receive fair payment for their efforts is by decentralizing the industry and taking the power out of the hands of the record labels and streaming services. Blockchain technology is the perfect enabler for this.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the last two years, David and his business partner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/at.linkedin.com\/in\/csdennstedt\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Sascha Dennstedt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been developing a platform called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hive.am\/bif0y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qravity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which allows creatives to connect with each other and collectively develop and monetize original digital content. The platform uses virtual tokens on the Ethereum blockchain to track digital media creation and distribute project stakes among creative team members<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David continues, \u201cUsing <a href=\"https:\/\/hive.am\/bif0y\">Qravity<\/a>, musicians can collaborate and work in exchange for stakes in the project. The content will go direct to market, so if a songwriter has, for example, a 30% stake in the project, he receives 30% of the revenue every time his songs are streamed or downloaded.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform contains a comprehensive suite of project management and communication tools to help creatives collaborate remotely; it also rewards them with a greater stake in projects as they complete each milestone.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to completely overhaul the entire industry,\u201d says David, \u201cWith <a href=\"https:\/\/hive.am\/bif0y\">Qravity<\/a>, we\u2019re transferring the power and profits from the executives to the talent, transparently and equitably.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get QCO during the Qravity token sale. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presale with 30% bonus: \u00a0July 28 &#8211; Aug 11<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about Qravity, <a href=\"https:\/\/hive.am\/bif0y\">Click Here<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music industry\u2019s business model has always been broken. For over 100 years artists have been paid a fraction of the earnings that their music makes. Take Enrico Caruso, an Italian opera singer from the early 1900\u2019s, credited with being one of the very first recorded artists. Over his lifetime he made over 488 recordings,<a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/musicians-have-always-been-ripped-off-heres-how-to-fix-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Musicians have always been ripped off &#8211; here\u2019s how to fix it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-social","category-sponsored"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Musicians have always been ripped off - here\u2019s how to fix it - AMBCrypto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The music industry\u2019s business model has always been broken. 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