An artist has gone on record to explain how one million plays of his music on Pandora earned him less than one sale of a T shirt.
His earnings also show how important terrestrial royalties are for his music collection.
The artists concerned is following a traditional route and using performing and composition royalty collection agencies to hand a portion of their license income (after staff and executive salaries and other operational costs) for the terrestrial radios to play his music.
This must be an eye opener for many musicians struggling to work out how to sustain an income with their music collection.
However, an article here reports on Pandora responding to claims by reporting how well some assist we’re earning with them.
The reference article is here.