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Mar 31 4 tweets 2 min read
Deezer told me about this practice a few years ago. I disagree with the writer’s statement that the only ones who lose out are “older out of touch-artists who think music should always be something meaningful and “culturally important” #Fixstreaming musicbusinessworldwide.com/an-mbw-reader-…
It is, however, true that I have a few musician friends who reverted to making this kind of “chill” music when they had kids - and discovered they make more from that than they did from streams of their artist albums…
And if they make more and shorter tracks, they can make even more, as they make the same from a one-minute chill track than a five-minute song they spent weeks on. This all dilutes the royalty pool and drives down rates. #FixStreaming #PaySongwriters
And if they make more and shorter tracks, they can make even more, as they make the same from a one-minute chill track than a five-minute song they spent weeks on. This all dilutes the royalty pool and drives down rates. #FixStreaming #PaySongwriters

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