Hmmmm, I guess you mean nada, zip, nil plus at least $2100 for one album (that soundscan shows was selling around 100 a week at the time) in 2006:

I can't find that interview. The only thing I can find online is a dispute over royalties with David Geffen from way back in the 60s. Got a link? That said I'm in the music business as well and have been for about 20 years and I can say with 100% certainty that payments to the artists have gotten much better. It's…

I'm not missing his point. Artists give away music for free all of the time with the blessing of the publisher and the songwriter. Just because they don't choose to give all of it away and they'd prefer to make some money from their music it doesn't mean that the publishers don't clear gratis downloads and other…

The publisher gets paid essentially for collecting and administering the royalties. Of couse they get a fee, they do a job for the artist. It would be like you being a bill collector. You aren't expected to do that job for free, you get a fee for collecting for the owner of the company.

That's not the case and I don't know why you'd suggest that. There are plenty of artists who give away free music, with the blessing of their publisher and the songwriters who also have to consent to giving away the music. The only time it becomes a bone of contention is when you have a company like Grooveshark who…

Do you not grasp that the publishers collect royalties for the songwriters? You seem to be advocating that music should be free so I'm asking how do you expect the songwriters to be paid if their publishers can't/won't collect? It's a simple question.

What would you like the songwriters to simply write the songs for free while they work at their local McDonalds? Do the artists themselves not deserve a share of the royalties?

If you look at the data out of Sweden where Spotify started and has been the longest, there has been a pretty significant shift in revenue from the Apple model of pay per track/album to the Spotify model of one price monthly/all you can eat. Essentially there is a tipping point in which the number of users using…

My apologies, I misunderstood you. The labels are in fact pushing for 360 revenues and some of the bands I work with have 360 deals...that said, very little has changed in how labels promote tours. The newest aspect is labels do manage to assist in pulling in sponsors for the larger tours but artists (like Bieber)…

So can you explain exactly what this "something else" that is happening out there is because you aren't making sense. The fact that labels sell music now means they push and promote to try to make a band as big as possible to make money off their music. Don't you think if there was a super secret way for a label to…

But that's not how it works either. The labels don't determine and can't determine the size of the venue an artist plays in. It's typically based on prior ticket sales, soundscan sales, press, & airplay. Trying to figure out what size a room an artist should perform in is typically done by the booking agent &…

Actually his Bieber example is wrong...he under calculated the royalties by around $300,000

I hate to continue dismantling Grooveshark's argument but if he's holding up Quiet Company as a success I'd hate to see what a failure looks like. The Quiet Company release has been out since October of 2011. Their debut week, like most bands, was pretty strong selling 472 - great for a band doing it on their own.…

I presume you're talking about the gatekeepers doing it all themselves? How frequently do you see articles on unsigned bands? The industry on average releases around 25,000 albums a year. Let's say 1/5 of those bands are pitched to Rolling Stone, and there are typically multiple calls about an artist but let's say 2…

As someone in the music business let me start by pointing out Tarantino's Bieber numbers are wrong wrong wrong.

This is from one of Komen's own press releases from March of last year:

Which is why most of them are middle aged white males.

From a Komen press release from March of last year:

The disappointing thing about this had a tiered plan been agreed to it would have opened the door to doing to more a la carte deals with providers, the one thing many of us have been complaining about for years and years when it comes to cable.

I have a tsunami warning in my email box: