All this is is the record companies trying recoup their former stature. I am all for musicians getting their cut. But spotify ect give them less than the old companies by orders of magnitude.
Until the record co’s learn that their time has passed, meaning when the last of them closes its doors, we will keep seeing the scheme of the month monopolize musicians and fans income.
But Russia and china have servers too. And they are about to become very popular.
I produced an indie CD a few years ago. In addition to i-tunes,which is the only one that pays fairly, the songs are included in just about all of the other music services, which only pay about a penny per download. Basically, I receive $10.00 per thousand downloads. The only reason I agreed to this is because the band needed the exposure. Last week our video on youtube came up on my husband’s iphone as a featured video. He was very surprised to see it. I don’t know how the new youtube rules will affect our videos. We’d like to stay on youtube. We have no record label, our CD is self-produced.