Popularity versus Demand: Looking further into the fair distribution of streaming wealth

David Touve
Rockonomic
Published in
9 min readAug 3, 2015

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This post will be the last in a series of three conversations on the ways in which artist popularity, listener demand, and time spent listening impact any redistribution of wealth that could occur when comparing Total Pool and Per User (aka, User Centric) methods for royalty payouts from streaming music services. These are the models that folks like Laguna, Lowery, Mulligan, and others are now debating if not taking a position.

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