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2019-12-11 | Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music? - Rolling Stone
'One route that music services could take is toward tiering — offering high-resolution streaming at a higher price, as TIDAL and Amazon do. '
'The music industry would welcome higher prices with open arms, as it’s griped about streaming’s meager payouts to rights-holders for a decade now. '
'In music, if your favorite streaming service said they were going to raise prices, you could easily switch to a different one. '
'So why hasn’t anyone been charging more than $10 a month for music? “It’s a billion-dollar question,” says Russ Crupnick, managing director of music research firm MusicWatch. “It’s been at least 15 years, if you include Rhapsody, that music subscriptions have been sold for the same price. '
'Per the U.S. rate of inflation, even a $10 bag of apples in 2008 should cost somewhere around $12 today. '
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'One route that music services could take is toward tiering — offering high-resolution streaming at a higher price, as TIDAL and Amazon do. '
'The music industry would welcome higher prices with open arms, as it’s griped about streaming’s meager payouts to rights-holders for a decade now. '
'In music, if your favorite streaming service said they were going to raise prices, you could easily switch to a different one. '
'So why hasn’t anyone been charging more than $10 a month for music? “It’s a billion-dollar question,” says Russ Crupnick, managing director of music research firm MusicWatch. “It’s been at least 15 years, if you include Rhapsody, that music subscriptions have been sold for the same price. '
'Per the U.S. rate of inflation, even a $10 bag of apples in 2008 should cost somewhere around $12 today. '
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