True, but tht iis in part down to some artists not being asked or having opportunities to make CDs for record companies; streaming is clearly more versatile and flexible in that respect.
What is stopping them from doing it? They can do it if they want to, it is just that the market for CDs has collapsed and you simply wont sell many thus the modernized approach is better for most. Music publishing companies will notice that there is more money to be made via streaming than CD sales and thus would push for that, why would anyone choose a medium which would not give them as much income?
Same answer as in the previous paragraph.
This does not contend with the fact that more musicians are making money from the non physical medium then CDs and such. There is nothing stopping them from selling CDs it is just that the market demand for such things has shrunk a great deal, what it has been replaced with however has offered more opportunity for more musicians than the physical medium which is now being eclipsed by modernised approaches.
Aye, there's the rub; c.1,000 times as many streams are required to generate the royalties that would be generated by a single CD.
And the vast majority of listeners of the stream would never buy the CD even if it were an option thus it is easier to make money from streams than selling CDs these days and is only growing every year. You are getting at least some money from consumers who would otherwise NEVER pay for a physical copy ever, since you are attracting a far larger pool of consumers than CDs ever would it tips to the favor of using streaming services rather than the physical medium these days.
This would appear to presume the need for vast quantities of streams compared to CDs
They are different mediums you are trying to compare. CD is a once off purchase where streams have a more consistent flow of repeated micro transactions over time and people who would never buy a CD even if it were offered to them still will use streaming services. You can also compare the video gaming market, micro transactions make companies a lot more than single payments to own a game, the music recording market also has caught onto this business model.
the fact that there are many more streaming possibilities than there are CD ones does nothing to make those figures look any better. "Nearly 2,000 artists in UK alone?"; if that's correct (and there's no obvious reason to doubt it), it is likely that many of them would be in the fields of rock, pop and other "non-classical" musics, so the number of performers and composers active in "classical" fields is likely to be a very small proportion of that "nearly 2,000".
There is no reason to doubt the facts from the statistics obvious or not. Classical music CD sales (even during CD heyday) only consist of around 2.5% of sales, so I don't know what your point is in this case comparing the small amount that exist in streaming too, it is only logical. More artists today are making money from their recordings than CD ever offered and that is only growing as time goes on.
And still it does! Indeed, the internet has made piracy so much easier and, as a consequence, so much more widespread. I do not, of course, blame the internet for that; responsibility lies with the users for whom piracy is a way of life.
The internet is the leading reason why CDs have collapsed, it is far too easy to copy music these days and distribute it, so the internet is the prime culprit. The streaming solution however combats this very well and people are willing to pay for streaming services out of the great convience of it all. If you can come up with a better solution then create it and you will be a billionare many times over, so far streaming is the only saviour to the music recording industry.
Indeed, the issue is still in its comparative infancy despite the length of time during which streaming and the like have been possible but, even without detailed examination and analysis of the figures, it is clear that making a living from streaming is possible only for a very small proportion of artists in the "classical" field.
One cannot suggest that CD sales offered more opportunity for artists to make a living from the sales by comparison to streaming, in fact the statistics say otherwise. Streaming however has allowed access to a good amount of sales for more musicians than CDs were making. WIthout streaming the recording industry would have collapsed further more which is not a good thing for the art of music.
Again I think it is important to reiterate that the transition from CDs to digital downloads had been shrinking the record industry leading to mass layoffs, and artist-roster cuts at major labels, streaming has changed all of this and there is nothing else better to save the industry thusfar.
Topic: Recording media