Business / Editorial question
Do radio and digital media owners create value for artists or charge for access to it?
They controlled the microphones, the magazines and the access. Then the market changed.
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Do radio and digital media owners create value for artists or charge for access to it?
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Then separate the services. Reach, curation, promotion, and ownership deserve different questions.
And the artist can end up paying for both while somebody else owns the audience relationship.
Imani, access isn't the only service. Good curation can give a record context that a random clip doesn't.
Curation is worth defending. Treating the curator as the permanent owner of somebody else's audience is another question.
Radio still breaks records. People write it off like nobody gets in a car anymore.
Distribution still matters. But owning distribution and having cultural influence aren't always the same thing.