Money Streams From Music Streaming by Gif

At a rate of roughly half a cent per stream, how valuable is online streaming revenue to the career of an unsigned artist? One hundred streams earn an artist a meager $0.50. Ten thousand streams earns an artist only $50 in revenue.

On Myspace my all time music plays are currently listed at 35,859. I decided to do a little math:

• 35,859 plays X 0.005 (Half a cent) = $179.295

If I were earning half a cent every time someone listened to my music on my Myspace page, I would have earned $179.295 in revenue. The plays I have accrued on my Myspace page pale in comparison to the numbers I have seen other artists pull. I've seen some artists get as many as a thousand plays a day. At that rate those artists could have earned an extra $1,680 a year.

Math:

• 1000 plays a day X 7 days a week X 4 weeks a month X 12 months a year X 0.005(half a cent) = $1,680

Think of it in these terms, if you have, let us say a ten-song album, 1000 visitors come to your site and each visitor listens to every song on your album a day, that’s a revenue stream of $50 a day.

Math:

• 1000 visitors a day X 10 plays per visitor X $0.005(half a cent) = $50 a day

What are the odds of an artist generating that kind of traffic? I’m being really idealistic with these numbers right? Maybe, if you believe you aren’t creating anything compelling enough to draw this kind of interest.

I look at a site like Last.fm where the more people listen to your music, the more people listen to your music (No, the repeat of the phrase is not a typo). Every time a user listens to a song it gets syndicated through an activity stream to the pages of all that user’s friends, which can lead to one play possibly resulting in multiple plays. Through Last.fm’s activity stream alone, depending on the amount of friends and reputation of the listener, one play can balloon into 10 or more.

Will artist be able to quit their day jobs and live off of the revenue generated from online streaming? Perhaps not. Does it beat the blank artists currently earn from people listening to their music on sites like Myspace and personal music players on their artist web site? You bet!

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Feb. 24th "A Monthly Bondfire @ The Bowery Poetry Club"!

Freehiphopnow.blogspot.com presents,

"A Monthly Bondfire @ The Bowery Poetry Club'! A Show That Begins On
Time!

Hosted by The Bronx Über Villain
Sounds by DJ Ready Cee
Photography by Techie NYC

Cover $5 after 11:30 $10 ( Free Hiphop Now Blog subscribers get in for $5 all night. Just mention you're a subscriber at the door).

Door opens at 10PM (Open Mic Sign Up at 10PM. Limited list. Be on time!)
Bondfire Mic's Open Show begins at 10:30 -11:30
Bondfire Concert Series Begins at 11:45

"Being plastered all over the cover of entertainment magazines generally has no bearing on whether or not the artists pictured, actually live up to what the articles inside them mention..."

On Tuesday Feb. 24th at the Bowery Poetry Club you will witness two entirely different artists that are very similar when it comes to their amazing talent. No seriously.

Both prolific and profound writers of intricate music, they both deliver with marksmen like accuracy and have the ability to not only move the crowd but have members of that crowd go home with a new appreciation for the art.

At 11:45 meet the 'Gif' as he unveils a condensed version of his one man show that recently had a very successful debut at the legendary BAM Opera House at BAM Cafe. He is accompanied by an awesome band that transforms powerful soul sampled production into the instrumental master pieces he narrates his compelling stores to...

At 12:30 meet Cavalier (member of Brooklyn group The Dugout). Responsible for the stellar debut album 'The Breaking' that has been called by more then a few respected sources, 'better then Nas' 'Illmatic' and Jay Z's 'Reasonable Doubt'. Cavalier is a force to be reckoned with.

Bondfire: Mic's Open Show 10:30 -11:30pm

Think MTV Unplugged, Def Poetry/Comedy Jam & SNL. During Bondfire: Mic's Open Show, open mic participants are guest of the host, 'The Bronx Über Villain'. Like medieval times where kings were entertained by the likes of jesters and musicians, performers do the same for the audience as well as , 'The Bronx Über Villain'. Each performance concludes with a mostly humorous comment from the host. The official show once edited for television and dvd will have a mix of the most outstanding open mic performances and out takes, live performances from the Bondfire: Concert Series, video interviews with various artists, comedy sketches and special ‘The Bronx Über Villain' commentary.

Bondfire: Concert Series 11:30pm-until

People aren't too enthused these days with live shows. They never seem to start on time. Artists either cancel or show up and aren't that impressive when they do. New York is a great city that has a reputation for being the starting point, and place of discovery of some of the greatest musicians to ever do it. Bondfire: Concert Series is about regaining the confidence of music lovers and creating lasting memories. Simply having a wonderful time. We're saying, 'No To Mediocrity!'.


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