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SoundCloud is Allowing Artists To Contact Fans (and Get Paid More)

The New Music Business with Ari Herstand

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Introduction

42% of all tracks in the world get less than 10 streams and something like 24% getting zero streams. SoundCloud is experimenting with a program we're calling first fans. It would take a curator 330 lifetimes to listen to one day of uploaded music. But at SoundCloud, we have this cheat code called Museo.

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