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Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Music, Money, Mispronunciation

Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

More people are paying for music subscriptions than ever! Where's the money going?

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0:00.0

50 million more Americans are paying for music now than in 2014.

0:05.2

This is, this is how I do it.

0:07.9

Say that again?

0:09.0

50 million more Americans are paying for music now than in 2014.

0:15.1

So as we transitioned from physical units to Napster to streaming services, it's interesting to think that 50 million more,

0:30.0

that's not even the total number. That's 50 million more Americans than 10 years ago.

0:35.4

Where is all this money going to?

0:41.9

And why are all artists going, it's not worth making music anymore?

0:45.1

Like, why isn't, why aren't they getting more than a thousand? Like, Spotify are getting their big giant cut of it, right?

0:48.1

So they need, so do all, does there need to be a musicians's union that covers everyone that says absolutely not,

0:56.3

we have to get a penny a play or whatever it is. I don't know what it would break down to.

1:00.1

But I'm paying, you know, probably, I actually subscribe to a few services because I do,

1:04.8

I have Spotify family, which apparently my thing is if anyone else is using it, Sean,

1:09.8

he's the only person that can be using it at the time.

1:12.2

We kick each other off.

1:13.1

So I just don't even touch that.

1:14.1

I also use Amazon music and Apple Music.

1:17.2

And I pay for all of those.

1:18.6

So whatever that is, that's probably $40 a month.

1:20.8

To answer your question, yes.

1:24.4

What was the question?

1:25.2

I forget.

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