Comments on: On Last.fm and royalty payments http://clicknoise.net/on-lastfm-and-royalty-payments/ Musings about music, technology, mobility, and culture, by Jean Hebert. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jean http://clicknoise.net/on-lastfm-and-royalty-payments/comment-page-1/#comment-21469 Jean Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:58:43 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/on-lastfm-and-royalty-payments/#comment-21469 <p>Thanks, Bill. This is indeed more reason to cast doubt on the future of Last.fm, and whether it will ever be a truly trustworthy recommendation engine/music sharing/distribution site. But as an indie artist with less than 300 listeners I wouldn't take credit for putting LFM on the map (even the whole 28% of the market represented by A2IM couldn't take that credit collectively). Remember that a lot of Big 4 music drives use of the site, too. Just look at the charts.</p> <p>Unless of course by "our content" you mean "our playlist information". In that case, yeah, I agree, but as a listener I feel I'm getting more out than I put in. Well, sometimes I feel that way.</p> <p>At any rate, we should always be using/trumpeting these services with a grain of salt, and perhaps also with a tongue firmly in cheek.;)</p> Thanks, Bill. This is indeed more reason to cast doubt on the future of Last.fm, and whether it will ever be a truly trustworthy recommendation engine/music sharing/distribution site. But as an indie artist with less than 300 listeners I wouldn’t take credit for putting LFM on the map (even the whole 28% of the market represented by A2IM couldn’t take that credit collectively). Remember that a lot of Big 4 music drives use of the site, too. Just look at the charts.

Unless of course by “our content” you mean “our playlist information”. In that case, yeah, I agree, but as a listener I feel I’m getting more out than I put in. Well, sometimes I feel that way.

At any rate, we should always be using/trumpeting these services with a grain of salt, and perhaps also with a tongue firmly in cheek.;)

]]> By: Bill IndieHQ http://clicknoise.net/on-lastfm-and-royalty-payments/comment-page-1/#comment-21466 Bill IndieHQ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:46:16 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/on-lastfm-and-royalty-payments/#comment-21466 My beef is that Last.fm just made a deal with SONY to stream content. I'll bet that includes more than just their previous token payments to Sound Exchange. My secondary problem is that now Last.fm is part of a huge media empire, received 280 million, and got there on our content. We put them on the map. My beef is that Last.fm just made a deal with SONY to stream content. I’ll bet that includes more than just their previous token payments to Sound Exchange.

My secondary problem is that now Last.fm is part of a huge media empire, received 280 million, and got there on our content. We put them on the map.

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