Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Are Taylor Swift and Beyoncé to Blame?" video.

13:00 correction - musicians always made their money touring. It's the labels who lost money from streaming. Artists get the same royalties they always got nix cd sales. Also, 100% increase since the 90's tracks with a 3% inflation compounded annually (the target inflation rate engineered by policy makers during that time).
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@somethinglikethat2176 the record label. I think Toni Braxton and Madonna had issues like that too. The people we're trying to protect here are the labels with this protectionism, not the artists. Streaming is no different from radio, where fewer commercials aren't needed because less overhead than radio. But the artists always made the bulk of their money by being known and then going on tour.
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