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I think there is a disconnect between what an artist might expect to receive and what a listener would actually pay.

Even before streaming radio became the standard way of listening to music, people didn't pay every time they played a song. They paid for the rights to listen to it as much as they wanted, but they only paid that once.

Now that we have streaming, consumption is different, and artists actually get paid per listen. They can't expect to get the same amount per listen that they got per song on a CD years ago.

You really shouldn't get into music for the money, because there isn't money anymore. The fact that there was money ever was a blip on the radar due to new technology allowing an industry to explode. Technology continued on though, and made the scarcity of music artificial.