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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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SoundCloud's User Centric Fan-Powered Royalties Model

Warner Records and a lot of the indies have signed on as well. SoundCloud teamed up with media research to do study where they tested, I think over 180,000 artists. Study found that about 65% of all artists that have under 100,000 listeners would actually make more money on this user centric fan powered royalties model than they would from the pro rat model.

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