Canada now pays artists the worst music streaming royalty rates in the world

And people wonder why I think the internet is making life worse for most musicians. Of course, there's revenue to be made from playing live, but touring costs money, there's a lot of music that doesn't attract large crowds for live performance (but which made enough on recorded sales to sustain the cost of production), and lots of songwriters who are not necessarily performers.

How a fee of 10 cents for 1000 plays is considered equitable beats me. Imagine, using the supplied royalty table, that you had notched up 1/2 million plays over the course of a year - not bad for a niche or emerging music act, right? Then it turns out that the value of this is under $100. That will buy you a few sets of guitar strings or drum consumables. If you're an electronic musician it might buy a new set of headphones. Whoopity-doo.