I rushed my earlier comment a bit because I only had a few minutes. Mainly I wanted to point out that there’s been some serious criticism of Pandora recently from musicians claiming that they’re being dishonest. The Pink Floyd article is definitely the central source I was trying to point out. The Keating link is mainly to show that independent artists are only getting a tiny amount of money from streaming services. As for the MusicFirst link, I apologize. I went looking for an article that talked about the recent controversy and came up with that. I did a very brief search on MusicFirst, specifically to find out whether they’re RIAA shills, and failed to discover that they are. I’ve read some general articles on the controversy recently from other sources, but couldn’t remember where offhand. Here’s another recent article on the subject.
It could be that Pandora is right and the criticism is unreasonable. I’m no expert. I just think that posting Pandora’s claims as though they’re unquestionably true is a bit hasty.
