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> which someone would have to listen to 471 times to reach Spotify pricing.

You might have misphrased, but in the event you didn't: How does listening to a CD generate revenue?

I think the comparison goes somewhat like this: selling one CD puts X dollars in the creator's pocket. How many times need a track be played on Spotify to generate the same number of dollars? The answer is 471, I think.

Right, but the way it was phrased was that it was the CD that was being listened to. I was curious.

Yeah, I was saying if you bought a CD you would pay $15 for 10 tracks, or $1.50 per track. You would have to listen to that CD 471 times for the cost per listen per track to reach what Spotify pays the artist per stream.

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