I’m a musician and love Deezer’s new artist-friendly payment system

As a music fan, I love the cost and convenience of the best music streaming services. But as a musician I’m horribly aware that the sums paid out by the streaming services are very, very low. A back-of-the-envelope calculation says that in order to earn the same amount of money as one play on national radio (about $40), I’d need to have a song streamed over 120,000 times.As USA Today reported, Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib once pointed out that

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