musicians

Hi Muso’s,

I recently read that spotify has not made up its sales targets with revenue as expected from its income streams, but are keeping a lid on it.  If spotify isn’t going be a working model, where does that leave Musicians and composers?  Firstly for me-an uniformed sigh of relief!  can anyone confirm wether this is true-short lived-or just a glitch?  Implications if true, I think is that the ‘Royalty free Music’ concept takes a blow again.  See previous articles of mine.  I don’t think that the ‘work for nothing’ concept for Musicians/Composers etc is a viable concept.  To get anywhere in that concept you have to be a solo marketing company/composer/computer technician/social networker/have infinite time etc type person.  These are death blows for the creative who needs to spend his time thinking-and creating and hence in the decline of ‘good’ music.  Multi Media/Royalty Free/Music download sites/Production Music sites can take over the ‘wage’ creation for music producers generally still leaving them with less than the 50% Royalties after ‘production’ costs-and that royalty collected is well less than generally than providing any sort of living wage because of the sheers numbers of Musicians/Composers etc out there.  I heard a well know composer say (Zimmer or Williams ilk) say “there are plenty of people out there who are better than me-I was just in the right place at the right time”………this could be expanded but says it all I think….??

Cheers

Paul

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