A New Funnel for Music

In other words, streaming is a lot more profitable for all the actual value creators after we bypass these technopolies.

But Bandcamp isn’t the answer. Moving all music from Spotify to Bandcamp is no more of a solution than moving all of TikTok’s content from ByteDance’s data centers to Oracle’s cloud. The Bandcamp model might offer artists a greater degree of control and revenue share, but Vine has shown that there’s too much to be lost by investing so much in a sin... See more

Curators face the same challenges artists do - getting discovered, building a reachable audience and earning a living. Independent music playlisters might have playlists with hundreds of thousands of followers, but no tools to reach those listeners, know who they are or attribute streams from their playlists.

Square acquired Tidal music to tackle this problem with musicians, who currently get most of their revenue from merchandise and tours, not ad revenue.

music producer 3LAU just sold the first tokenized music album, an NFT version of his album, Ultraviolet, for $3.6 million. The NFT is also redeemable for additional perks such as a customized song. Again, it’s possible for creators to tie directly economic flows to these items, enabling holders of assets to receive revenue from the project as it la... See more