Thanks to streaming, recording industry revenues are back up to pre-internet levels, but musicians are poorer than ever

[anon61221983]

@Otherbrother

. Digital marketplaces like iTunes stock a vastly larger library of songs than brick-and-mortar stores ever did

That’s very true, but part of the problem is that the artist gets even less from streaming/downloads than from physical copies over all.

@Otherbrother

the median (and average) incomes of those artists is going to go down pretty much by definition

But is that because of the nature of the internet or is it because of music being an undervalued commodity, and the labor going into the work being even more hidden than it used to be.