Billy,

Thanks for the facts and figures, those are important for people to see if they are interested in Pay-for-Play business models. It demonstrates some of the things that artists should be paying attention to when thinking about how to best market their music business and it is obvioius that you do pay attention!

But, I agree with Geordieswords comments. Soundclick, garageband, Purevolume and others offer free and paid services and wratchet down the service level to the amount paid. But, they make you work for your music by virture of time consuming search or offsite links from other services which brings me back to discovery by pure dumb luck.

What I am trying to say is that I think there is a business model in the Pay-for-Play scenario that should be supported if it does something new to promote your business. Maybe not LastFM or Jango but maybe Pandora or another company.

In an environment with unlimited shelf space, what shelf do you want to be on in the store? The one on the bottom, the top or in the middle at eye level beside all of the other name brand products.