Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (2017)
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#2On Spotify, the top 0.4% of artists are responsible for 9.9% of streams.
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#3An interesting way to tackle this issue could be user-centric payouts. [0] It feels like a fairer system but it has yet to be tested at a large scale.
[0]: https://musically.com/2020/05/13/what-are-user-centric-music...
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#4Less of a power law than I would have expected.
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#5> In any case, the user centric model gives more direct power to users to target the money they pay for the service to the artists or tracks they favour compared with the pro rata model, which is not transparent from their point of view.
This is the model most people would think their money goes to. But the recording industry has never been intuitive. Or fair.
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#6On Spotify, the top 0.4% of artists are responsible for 9.9% of streams.
But not 9.9% of the revenue.
Bob streams track 11,12,13,14 1,000 times a month each for their €10
Jamie streams track 21,22,23,24 100 times each for their €10
Total revenue €20, Total streams 4,400. .45c per stream.
Track 11 gets €4.50, track 21 gets €0.45
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#7An interesting way to tackle this issue could be user-centric payouts. [0] It feels like a fairer system but it has yet to be tested at a large scale. [0]: https://musically.com/2020/05/13/what-are-user-centric-music...
Does it make any practical difference? Surely in aggregate the totals end up broadly similar?
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#8The algorithm for payment is dumb. If I pay £15 a month and only listen to 4 artists over that time (I’m very predictable) I want those 4 to get £3.75 each. But they won’t. Lady ga ha will get most of it.
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#9> In any case, the user centric model gives more direct power to users to target the money they pay for the service to the artists or tracks they favour compared with the pro rata model, which is not transparent from their point of view. This is the model most people would think their money goes to. But the recording industry has never been intuitive. Or fair.
Yes and no. I did personally think (before learning more) that my monthly payment was divided to the artists I listened to. But all money is pooled to a single bucket from which money is then distributed to all artists. So even if I never listen to any of the 0.4% artists here, 9.9% of my payment goes to them anyway.
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#10On Spotify, the top 0.4% of artists are responsible for 9.9% of streams.
And this seems reasonable, since I would expect that most of the streams come from the ‘popular in country x’ playlist.