Billy,

I'm not convinced that the 7,000 sites linking to Soundclick aren't just other artists linking from their own site to their own music. How does that benefit you, if they aren't searching for you're music?

If you spent countless hours developing a cross link network, how much time did you spend and how much is your time worth?

In addition, spending 9.5 minutes of time on Soundclick is just enough time to check your last post on the boards and it is much, much less than the average listener spends listening to Internet Radio servered up for them. For example, here are some old statistics from an April 2007 report from Bridge Ratings that can be viewed here as well: http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_04.18.07.Internet%20RadioUpd-.htm

"The entire sample can be viewed based on how many hours a week they spend listening to Internet Radio. We break out the entire sample into 5 groups or Quintiles each Quintile is associated with the number of hours per week listened.

Quintile V (heaviest listening) - 20+ hours per week
Quintile IV (next heaviest) - 15-19 hours per week
Quintile III (moderate) - 10-14 hours per week
Quintile II (light listening) - 6-9 hours per week
Quintile I (lightest listening) - less than 6 hours per week"

I stand by my question, if Pay-for-Play becomes a standard artists will have to choose which shelf they want to be on in order to compete.


Last edited by ArtistPreneur; 04/28/09 02:35 AM.