The music business had the option to drop compact disc prices every single day since the birth of Napster.
And as cd sales have steadily declined prices have remained high. The laws of supply and demand do not apply in the music business.
Now, as the writing on the wall regarding the future of the cd has become clearer streaming stores have entered the market.
And there is a very heated argument between various camps about the extremely low payouts of streaming stores. If you stream a whole record that I recorded and produced on Spotify I will see no more than a nickel off Spotify.
And the argument as to why this payment is good and fine is that you need to get mass streaming and all those pennies will add up. Which may work if you are Lady Gaga and Nickelback, but there is such a thing as a smaller musical genre. And despite what most Americans believe, a smaller genre is fine and surely smaller genres will not grow if they can’t exist today.
So the cd feast is ending.
And the Spotify famine is growing.
And it seems reasonalbe for musicians and labels to come up with something between a nickel for an album stream and $14 for a disc.
A price that is neither a feist nor a famine.
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