Here’s another rebuttal for David Lowery, who recently asserted that Pandora was ripping him off. It turns out his record company is ripping him off, which should be old news to him by now.
Lowery told kids to get off his lawn about this time last year, blaming Creative Commons.
David Lowery’s “My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89” article has been picked up over and over and over, including by very respectable folks, often without comment.
This has left many readers with two impressions:
Pandora only paid $16.89 for 1 million plays.1
Pandora pays much lower royalty rates than Sirius XM and especially terrestrial AM/FM radio.
Music royalties are complex, but both of these are patently untrue.
via the understatement: Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89.