In relation to this, I found an old thread topic, rather than bumping it up, I'm sure some other dickie bird will.

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...lining&st=0

Spotify pays on a PER STREAM BASIS. Same with Youtube/VEVO. It's in their interest that a song is only paid at most 10 times (a day) instead of 1000 times (manipulation of streaming over and over and over).

 

Which mean they are smart enough to prevent "obsessed" fans from streaming a song over and over straight to the chart. The same way in that if a user purchase an Itunes song over and over, it will only count ONCE.

 

10 streams of "What Make You Beautiful" = 10 x $0.005 = $0.05 payment

1000 streams of "What Make You Beautiful" = 1000 x $0.005 = $5 payment ----------------due to fan manipulation

 

 

Just a simple twitch in their software would do the trick.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, not just fan manipulation. If you have a song on Spotify and it pays you $0.005 per stream. Put that song on all day and night, you could earn a lot of money. But Spotify software probably catch this and prevent it from happen.

 

Any musicians in here who have songs on Spotify? And want to experiment by streaming your song over and over and over for 24 hours straight. And next month, see what it will say on your royalties statement.

Edited February 19, 201213 yr by Dust2

Muve Music is created by a prepaid phone carrier with about 5 million customers. Just after 1 year, 600,000 have signed up for it.

 

Imagine if the like of of Verizon or AT&T who have about 200 million users between them do the same...................

 

Subscription music might be dominate (not by Spotify) but by the major wireless carriers in the near future.

20% of Verizon and AT&T subscribers = 40 millions paying subscribers in the USA alone.

 

The equivalent of some 5 billions Itunes download each year.

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsb...-global-rollout

 

Muve Music subscription service looking to expand beyond the US

With 600k paying subcribers, bundling unlimited music with voice, texts and data is working well

 

I spoke to Bolton at the ShowStoppers event in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World Congress. Cricket and Muve Music's presence here is a sign that the service may expand beyond the US soon.

 

"For Cricket, it's lowering churn and increasing ARPU [average revenue per user], so we've been thinking that other carriers might like to have this," says Bolton.

 

"Muve Music is spinning off, and the goal is to get it working with other carriers. The labels are very excited and want to see it go international: they see Muve Music as the vehicle to take this model global. That said, we have no announcements yet."

 

Muve Music customers in the US certainly seem keen: Bolton says the average user downloads 300 songs a month, and plays them for nearly 40 hours – an important metric, since Muve Music pays labels and publishers per play, rather than per download.

 

Bolton is keen to stress Muve Music's difference to the reigning king of digital music, Apple's iTunes Store. He describes his service as a "win-win-win" for customers, rightsholders and mobile operators. As opposed to?

 

"iTunes has been a win-lose-lose. Apple makes millions, but customers have paid a lot of money for music, and the music industry thinks it's lost out on a ton of revenue. You see the value that Apple created, and the value that the music industry had."

Edited February 28, 201213 yr by Dust2

This is the most likely form of music consumption worldwide in the near future.

 

paying XX a month for unlimited music downloads + unlimited talk, texts and data on a smartphone.

 

 

Launched by mobile operator Cricket Wireless in January 2011, it started with an affordable Samsung non-smartphone, charging people $55 a month for unlimited voice calls, messages, data and music downloads from a catalogue including songs from all the major labels. Later in the year, an Android handset with a $65 plan was added.

 

"What's powerful about this offering is that the music feels free," says John Bolton, senior director of product at Muve Music. "That's important, because no one wants to pay for music. And one year in, we have 600,000 paying subscribers, making us the second largest digital subscription service in the US."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog...al-streams.html

 

Billboard, the publisher of the Hot 100 singles and other music charts, will be incorporating spins from on-demand streams from services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Muve, MOG, Slacker and Rdio in determining which songs top its charts. It will also publish a new chart for top on-demand streaming tunes, with the first chart debuting Wednesday.

 

The charts will rely on data from Nielsen, which has been tracking digital music streams since 2005, but had not publicly shared the information. In the first 70 days of this year, Nielsen said it captured 4.5 billion audio streams -- 625 million of those in the last week, up from 494 million during the week that ended March 4. Nielsen does not track Pandora, which does not provide data to Nielsen on its personalized radio streaming service to more than 20 million users.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...=googlenews_wsj

 

Billboard magazine's Hot 100 songs chart is getting a digital makeover, though readers might not notice much of a difference when the weekly list is released on Wednesday.

 

The trade magazine, or the "bible" as it is known within the music industry, says it will now include data from streaming-music sites and subscription-music services such as Spotify AB, Rhapsody International Inc. and Rdio Inc. to its calculations of a song's popularity. The new data will supplement radio-airplay ratings and digital song sales that currently define the chart.

 

Billboard Editorial Director Bill Werde said in an interview that the magazine decided to update its charts now because the current generation of music-streaming services "have only recently hit a critical mass" among users.

 

 

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-BS868_CHART_NS_20120313180603.jpg

 

 

 

 

625 million on-demand streams last week

at $0.005 per stream, that is the equivalent of $3.125 million or ~ 3 million MP3 sold per week. Each week, about 25-28 million MP3 are sold.

It's only a matter of time before the UK Chart follow Billboard example.

 

200 on-demand streams = 1 download

Edited March 14, 201213 yr by Dust2