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Music streaming revenue structures stacked against artists

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Title
Music streaming revenue structures stacked against artists
Published by
The Conversation, October 2013
DOI 10.64628/aa.xfjws4rmj
Authors

Philip Graham

Abstract

Streaming services like Spotify and Pandora pay many millions of dollars each year for the rights to the music they play. But how much of this ends up back with artists and songwriters? The answer: not…

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2019.
All research outputs
#1,484,303
of 31,814,824 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#135,009
of 198,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,706
of 244,021 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#134
of 465 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,814,824 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 198,378 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 101.0. This one is in the 31st percentile – i.e., 31% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 244,021 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 465 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.