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cachiva said:
My two cents...

Nobody has made money selling music for years now. Who actually buys
anything? Everybody streams. Even the Billboard charts show all of the
"sales" are really just thousands of streams that they count as sales.

All their money was coming from performing, and that stopped, with no
warning, back in March. And who knows when it will come back. So,
how does one react to losing all of one's income? How does one live
the luxury lifestyle one has become accustomed to, when the tap is just
turned off? Bow Wow is selling do-rags!

Tyga must have thought, "Well, everyone has seen my dick pics, and, the
reaction was positive, so, I think I'll go for it!"

It is weird to read the comments that praise the access, but question the motive.


(By the way, my two cents were not actual cents. They were 20,000 virtual
streaming cents that count monetarily as two cents.)

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The bold part of your post doesn't make sense. Physical record sales eventually changed to digital sales (mp3s, iTunes, etc.) in the 2000s and then streaming took over in the past decade. Regardless of the format, music labels make money off any type of music consumption. It's not free for streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc. to host music; they pay labels and artists. VEVO was launched in late 2009 they paid artists over $200 million in music royalties by December 2012. If you're getting a large number of streams, you're definitely making money.

That said, artists themselves don't make a lot off of sales/streams; it's the label who does and artists, writers, backup singers, producers, mixers, etc. get a cut of the royalties. It's even worse now for artists because of the 360 deals that they sign with labels. Like you said, most money is made through touring and also endorsements.
 
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