Mechanical royalties on CD or digital sales are 12 cents per track, for tracks under 5 minutes (2.31 cents per minute for longer). Qobuz pays 2.2 cents per stream. So if you buy a 10-song album of sub-5-minute songs, the royalties are $1.20. If you stream that same album 5 times or less, the royalties are lower. If 6 times or more, then the streaming royalties (for Qobuz at least) are higher.In this light of streaming versus owning .. came across this today. Do not know how accurate it is.
And if you buy it from Qobuz, you don't have this problem either. There are also 6 tracks on "disc 2" of the deluxe edition that aren't licensed for streaming. But if you buy the high-res version for $17.59 you get all 33 tracks.
Like I and several others have mentioned, this doesn't have to be an either/or conversation.
Album sales have not been making artists rich for a long time. Most of them survive on touring revenue and merch sales.
Statistics: Posted by lazydavid — Sun Dec 15, 2024 8:58 am — Replies 162 — Views 7981