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How much is music worth? (Patreon)

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2018-08-13 22:38:02

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2026-06

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Hope you enjoy this exploration of the worth of recorded music, why it's priced the way that it is, and why visual art sells for literally hundreds of millions of dollars when you can listen to music for free!

Phew! Two big-picture video essay in two weeks, this was absolutely exhausting for me. Hope you dig it!

Adam

PS. You might note that I didn't mention Patreon in this video, or other crowdfunding options for artists. I went back and forth on this idea in the script a couple times and ultimately left it out. I wanted to mainly focus on the monetary worth of music itself, and not the relationship musicians have with their fans. It does seem strange that I left out Patreon when I owe basically my entire career to Patreon, but I left it out for that reason.

I suppose that's not the greatest idea from a financial point of view, since more eyeballs would have been on my Patreon, but...meh.

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How much is music worth?

Why is it that visual art goes for hundreds of millions of dollars at auction, and music sells for...well, nothing sometimes? Is music really worth that much less than art? Or is there something else at play that speaks to the fickle economics of art? HOOT AND HOLLER:https://www.hootandhollermusic.com LEE STEVALL SOUNDS (direct to vinyl recording): https://leestavall.com MUSICIANS GET 12% of the record industry: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/musician-12-percent-43-billion-revenue SOTHEBY’S VALUATION OF ART: http://www.sothebys.com/content/sothebys/en/news-video/value-of-art.html VALUE OF ART AT THE MET: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-approximate-value-of-the-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Arts-collection “PRICE HIKE” ope-ed: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a1341/esq0404-apr-music/ TAYLOR SWIFT’S OP-ED: https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219 ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN: https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/wu-tang-clan-places-88-year-copyright-on-5-million-secret-album/ Another “only 1 copy in existence” album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_pour_Supermarch%C3%A9 (⌐■_■) ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ https://teespring.com/stores/adam-neely-merchandise ⦿ SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ⦿ http://www.patreon.com/adamneely ⦿ FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS ⦿ http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely ⦿ Check out some of my music ⦿ http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam