Alternative payment models in the music streaming market: A comparative approach based on stream-level data
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- doi: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101103
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Streaming User-centric Music industry M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel EconomicsSujets proches
Lieder Solo songs Arias Art songs Ariettas Songs with various acc Solo vocal music, Secular Payment--Law and legislation Pattern ModelCiter ce document
François Moreau et al., « Alternative payment models in the music streaming market: A comparative approach based on stream-level data », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101103
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Music streaming platforms' models for sharing revenues with content providers have been the subject of intense debate for nearly a decade. The dominating model involves pooling platform revenues and allocating these funds to songs based on a song's share of the total number of platform streams. Since this model has several controversial consequences, alternative models have been proposed. This paper uses a novel approach to assess the two most discussed modelsthe "user-centric" and the "artist-centric". Our approach relies on a unique data set of 154,505 streaming platform users (890 million streams) and simulates how a large-scale implementation of these models may reallocate revenues across different songs and rightsholders. We disentangle the static effects of a transition to a "user-centric" or an "artist-centric" model across each of six different song characteristics. We then compare the results of the two models. We show that contrary to its objective, an artist-centric payment system does not significantly improve remuneration to professional artists while the user-centric payment system would generate more significant changes in revenue reallocation, mainly at the expense of Rap & Hip-hop songs, superstars and new releases. Finally, we analyze the positions of the various stakeholders with regard to each of them.
