Subj : Re: I am thinking...
To   : Ogg
From : esc
Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 07:41 pm

 Og> Rogan is a different "product". I doubt that they could apply  
 Og> the same royalty-based system per episode or per avg 4-min  
 Og> segment that a song is based on.

Streaming has given musicians access to wider audiences but musicians typically earn far less now that their songs are streamed and not individually licensed purchases. 

I'm friends with the singer of a very well known metal band and at this point they only actually make any money from merch. Album sales are crap these days, streaming pays shockingly little, and touring pays their label well but the musicians kinda get screwed. The streaming thing and the label/touring thing are two separate issues, to be sure, but streaming has killed off a lot of income for musicians. So I was basically saying that Spotify started as a music streaming company. It pays musicians crap for their art being streamed. But a podcast gets a $200mil contract. For musicians, it sucks. Rogan was a gamble that clearly didn't pay off, but my hope is that streaming music will prove unsustainable as a business model and the traditional "license this art by buying a copy forever" will come back into fashion.

One can hope :/

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