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Exclusive: Pandora's Plan to Share More Streaming Data With Artists | Billboard - 0 views

  • Stung by accusations that it doesn’t pay enough royalties to artists, Pandora Media has been quietly working on a tool that would demonstrate the company's value by giving artists more information on how their songs perform on its Internet radio service.
  • The tool is essentially a dashboard that tells artists such things as the spin counts of each of their songs, how many thumbs up (or down) their songs have received and their audience reach by age, gender and geography, among other things
  • movement for “data transparency,”
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  • “heat map”
  • The company, which is lobbying Congress to change the method used to calculate the royalties it and other Internet radio services must pay,
  • royalty rate calculated by the
  • Copyright Royalty Board.
  • independent, unsigned musicians are more likely to side with his company because they receive more exposure for their music on Internet radio than they do on broadcast radio. Established artists on the other hand feel they should get more money for hits that have already proven their worth.
  • don’t like compulsory licenses. They’ve been trying to undermine them by making the rates so high that Internet radio companies would rather do direct deals with them."
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