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Esthero & the Music Kleptocracy

estHERO is sick of making .003 cents a stream or youtube

U gotta learn the videopress & wordpress and stream your own music…i know u don’t want to be a slave to the big 6.

CONCLUSION

I’ll spread u the virus of knowledge and hacked software. 10% of an amazon sale is another swindler’s tale. Back in the day musicians would beg for radio play. now u can record the radio on your device….u gotta have that alex jones can do humble water filtration salesman stuff…i teach 2 of u girls…and u teach 2 more….and so on and so on until u r free and life is a cup of tea

steve jobs the musical luddite

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8 Replies to “Esthero & the Music Kleptocracy”

  1. 1,330 dollars per million streams on youtube….1,330,000 per billion streams…cost of production never gets met….best think for musicians to do is sell amazon at 10% per sale

    http://sinj.com/10/index.htm

    $0.019 per stream. Tidal. $0.01284 per stream. Apple Music. $0.00783 per stream. Google Play Music.
    $0.00676 per stream. Deezer.
    $0.0064 per stream. Spotify.
    $0.00437 per stream. Amazon.
    $0.00402 per stream. Pandora.
    $0.00133 per stream. YouTube.

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  6. Fans streaming the new single by pop singer Esthero have discovered it’s been deliberately doctored to protest against Spotify’s royalty rates.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49674332

    Ninety seconds into Gimme Some Time, the music dips, and Esthero explains the full version of the song will only be available on her website.

    The money Spotify generates is “really not a liveable income,” she explains.

    “I really hope you enjoy my music enough to actually go and support and buy the song from me.”

    Speaking to BBC 5 Live, Esthero said the protest “came from a general sense of frustration and powerlessness,” at the payments offered by services like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, which can be as little as $0.003 per stream.

    “I would like to just make a living,” she said. “I can’t give something away for free and expect you to purchase it as well.”

    ‘I got angry’
    The Canadian singer has been writing and recording music since the 1990s, working with the likes of Outkast, the Black Eyed Peas and Kanye West (she played the voice of a robot on his Glow In The Dark Tour).

    She grew disillusioned with streaming services last year, after her song Black Mermaid was featured in the Netflix film Nappily Ever After.

    “It was like a dream placement,” she said. “It was written into the script of the film, so the lead character was talking about it and saying the lyrics. You really couldn’t ask for any better.”

    Thanks to the exposure, Black Mermaid quickly became her most-streamed song, generating 1.3m plays on Spotify alone.

    But Esthero says it generated less than $5,000 (£4,031) in royalties. When she compared that to the potential income of a million downloads, “I just sort of got angry”.

    Initially, she considered pulling her music down altogether, but then she came up with a cunning plan: Edit the streaming version, so it acts like a “trailer” for the full song, and use it to expose “the fact that the pay is so little” on streaming sites.

    “I thought, ‘I should have a little V for Vendetta moment and tell people what’s going on,'” she said.

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