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Pandora paid just 0.093 cents per performance in 2010 and it increased by only 10% every year, amounting to 0.13 cents in 2013. For the next two years, the rates were set at 0.14 cents and 0.15 cents, respectively.Although the increase in royalty rates has been moderate so far, SoundExchange has proposed a significant increase going forward. lululemon outlet, or artist marketing platform, is meant to help artists understand where they have dedicated followings to book gigs and better understand how to sell their music. Starting Wednesday, any artists played on Pandora can sign up for the service at http://amp.pandora.com/. Pandora already shared this kind of data with artists and their managers but not in such a open-access way.Spotify -- the biggest service in the subscription-streaming market -- has operated a similar program since December 2013 called Spotify for Artists, which provides musicians with analytics on listening and audience demographics.Westergren rattled off other Pandora's stats to support how the AMP program is backed by rich information: users' average listen-in duration is more than 20 hours per month; 11,900 artists of the 125,000 on the site have over 100,000 unique listeners that have "thumbed up" their music. More than 50 billion hours of music have been listened to in the past 9 years on Pandora, 45 billion "thumb" inputs have been shared, and 7 billion stations have been created.

Pandora and other streaming services have been warming their overtures to the music industry lately. In August, Pandora itself introduced its first-ever direct deals with independent labels, and Smule, a music gaming company, created a dedicated program to develop promotional campaigns with artists, such as arranging a duet between fans and artist through its Sing! ugg boots black friday. Spotify and Bandpage joined forces to let musicians sell "experiences" to fans on the streaming service, such as private concerts, duets, and pre-show parties. And Soundcloud began a process to share new-added ad revenue with musicians.Streaming music has grown to become the music industry's biggest area of sales growth in just a few years, but it has been plagued by questions -- sometimes outright accusations by high-profile musicians -- about whether royalty and payment structures rip off artists.Coming up on the end of a year marred by bitter quarrels over royalties for online music, Pandora is now making a play for artists' goodwill.While the Internet radio provider already pays a significant amount in royalties, it might have to pay even more in the coming years, thanks to SoundExchange’s latest proposal. The Internet radio provider has stated in the past that royalties it pays have increased by 53% in the last five years and will go up by another 9% in 2015. During the recent earnings call, the company’s CFO stated that Pandora has already paid more than $1 billion in royalties, which is highest among all the radio forms.

On Wednesday, Pandora announced the launch of AMP (pandora black friday 2014), a free service that pulls back the curtain on the widely popular streaming service and gives musicians access to data on who is listening to their music, when and where.The Oakland-based streaming service is not the first to the analytics game — Spotify partnered with Next Big Sound in 2013 and acquired The Echo Nest in March — but Pandora has, by far, the largest audience. The company reports that more than 76 million listeners tune in to Pandora for an average of 20 hours each month. In June 2014, that amounted to about 1.6 billion listener hours.AMP offers artists daily updates on the number of listens for each song, demographic and geographic data on listenership, and the number of fans making artist playlists. Pandora says the service will enable artists to target cities with large fan bases for tours, strategize album and single releases and better engage with audiences."With AMP, the goal is simple: We want to harness the power of our scale and data to make artists' lives easier," says Pandora founder Tim Westergren in a press release.So will this change anything for Pandora listeners? That depends on how much AMP wins over musicians and persuades more artists to join the service.

With profits from music sales far lower than decades past, artists are looking to data as they try to squeeze as many dollars as possible from everything else — touring, merchandise sales and other profit streams driven by audience engagement. ray ban black friday 2014 move to offer artists data might help, and could improve relationships with musicians.Shares of Internet radio provider Pandora Media (NYSE:P) fell by almost 10% in extended trading, after it reported slower-than-expected growth in active listeners and listener hours in Q3 2014. The company had a total of 76.5 million active listeners at the end of the third quarter, which was marginally below analysts’ estimate of 76.7 million. Its listeners hours increased from 3.99 billion (Q3 2013) to 4.99 billion, trailing the consensus estimate of 5.02 billion. However, Pandora did well in terms of topline and bottomline growth. Total revenues increased 42% year over year to $239.6 million, slightly more than what the street expected ($238.5 million). Earnings per share came in at $0.09, a penny ahead of the market consensus. According to the proposal, while non-subscription royalty rates for Pandora will increase consistently from 0.11 cents to 0.118 cents between 2016-2020, subscription royalty rates will increase from 0.21 cents to 0.23 cents during the same period. [2] Given that royalties account for almost 40% of Pandora’s expenses, an increase in rates could greatly impact the company’s bottomline growth, which is already struggling.

The recent results suggest that the brisk growth phase Pandora had seen in the last couple of years is slowly coming to an end. Its monthly active listener base has reached a level, from where rapid growth is unrealistic. In a way, it may be a blessing in disguise for Pandora, as the more users it has, the more royalties it will have to pay. These royalties have become a big concern for the company now, as SoundExchange offered a new proposal last week, that can potentially increase Pandora’s royalties 2016 onwards. [1] This is somewhat threatening for the company’s bottomline growth, and hence it is seeking legal aid against this re-proposal. If the Credit Royalty Board accepts SoundExchange’s proposal and Pandora is able to bring down the proposed royalty rates only marginally, it can put enormous pressure on the Internet radio provider’s profits. Therefore, we believe that the long term solution for Pandora is to improve its monetization, because otherwise it may not be able to sustain the rise in its user base.Copyright Royalty Board has set the royalty rates for Pandora Media on per performance basis.michael kors black friday 2014.