Making Dollars: Clearing Up Spotify Payment Confusion Artists don’t like change. Despite the ability to make records on their computers and reach all their fans via e-mail and social media, they want said fans to buy albums, preferably in physical form, in prodigious numbers, they want to get rich! Want to get rich? Go into […]

Streaming won. That’s right. While you were lauding the sonic quality of CDs, bitching about Spotify payments and repeating endlessly that no one wanted to rent music, technologists, not married to the past, enmeshed in a sphere of creative destruction, necessary in order to win, saw what the people wanted before they knew it and […]

Blog: Pandora and Artist Payments He’s at it again. Tim Westergren is not running a music service, but a religion. He expects his flock to follow him blindly, leaving their minds behind, all with the goal of lining his pockets. He owns stock worth double digit millions, yet he’s complaining the company’s getting screwed. Who […]

Blog: Join Us to Stop the Discrimination Against Internet Radio He’s on the wrong side. His own. Read any financial analysis and you’ll learn investors are not bullish on Pandora, because it pays most of its income in royalties. Is this the listener’s problem? Is this the artist’s problem? Is this anything but Tim Westergren’s […]