Four concerts in Florida and one in North Carolina. The So You Think You Can Dance crew earned $143K on their latest stop in Durham. Chris Young (Season 4 winner of Nashville Star), Scotty McCreery (Season 10 winner of American Idol) and Cassadee Pope (Season 3 winner of The Voice) teamed up for the KISS Country 99.9 Stars and Guitars concert in Fort Lauderdale. Daughtry and his crew were in Pompano Beach while David Cook had two concerts. One concert was in Clearwater with Geri X opening and the other was with Jeff Harding opening in the same venue as the KISS concert
So You Think You Can Dance Tour
Nov. 12, 2014: Durham, N.C.: Durham Performing Arts Center: 2,661 of 2,712 (98%): $142,954
KISS Country 99.9 Stars & Guitars: Kip Moore, Hunter Hayes, Chris Young, Scotty McCreery, Cassadee Pope
Nov. 9, 2014: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Au-Rene Theater: 2,016 of 2,024 (99.6%) : $50,400
Daughtry
Nov. 12, 2014: Pompano Beach, Fla.: Pompano Beach Amphitheatre: 1,041 of 2,704 (38%): $45,597
David Cook, Geri X/Jeff Harding
Nov. 8, 2014: Clearwater, Fla.: Capitol Theatre: 542 of 629 (86%): $21,971
Nov. 1, 2014: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Amaturo Theater: 356 of 584 (61%): $12,997
Meanwhile, the articles on Spotify keep coming (next week, streaming numbers from providers like Spotify will be included in the BB200 numbers along with single sales. The streaming numbers are already included in the Hot 100).
Billboard looks at the Financials of Spotify (finally starting to turn a profit in France/UK, but burning money in the rest of the world and that’s not necessarily unexpected or bad)
Indie Artist Ron Pope Weighs In (he loves Taylor Swift, but disagrees that Streaming is hurting emerging artists. He’s been able to earn $250K from streaming and build a world-wide fan base – something he couldn’t do as an Indie using traditional methods like radio airplay. As he is an indie who owns his own music, every dollar Spotify pays is his. Although he agrees that labels deserve to be compensated for the risks they take, a lot of the complaints we are hearing from named artists about low pay-outs are coming because the labels are taking a massive piece of the pie:
In a tweet earlier this year, Bette Midler said that she received $114.11 for 4,175,149 plays on Pandora. Based on what I’ve seen in my own SoundExchange reports, one million spins on Pandora generate over $1,000 for the rights holders. This means that somewhere between Pandora paying out over $4,000 and Bette Midler getting a check for $114.11, someone took a pretty sizable chunk of that money. Recording and publishing deals need to evolve with the times. I’d love to hear exactly what percentage of the two million dollars that Spotify has paid out to Swift’s team over the past twelve months actually made it’s way into Taylor’s hands.
I agree with a lot of what he is saying. He points out the apple vs oranges comparisons we’ve been seeing and this:
We can’t go back to 2007. We have to deal with the music industry that we work in today. Fans under 25 have grown up in a world where music has always been completely free. I’d much rather my fans consume music via a service that will pay me, like Spotify, as opposed to downloading it illegally or streaming it somewhere that pays me nothing. Yes, modifying people’s behavior is challenging — but I’m excited that a large percentage of the current paid subscriber base of Spotify began as free users. That means Spotify is, in fact, modifying the behavior of their users. Their service is taking people who are used to paying nothing for music and getting them to change their minds and spend money on art. That’s exciting news in my book.
Finally, there is a Trio of studies about the impact Streaming has on sales (The CMA finds that streaming is three times more successful at getting people to buy than radio. 25% of respondents purchased after streaming, only 8% after radio. BitTorrent reports that even music stealers buy albums and the more they steal, the more they buy).
Lots of information to mull over.
