The Long Tail and Streaming

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/david-bowie-s-predictions-about-the-future-of-the-music-industry-were-right-a6813321.html

"But streaming doesn’t seem to be delivering much of a financial return to small artists. That is hardly surprising given that Spotify’s average “per stream” royalty payout is between $0.006 and $0.0084. You would need to have had a lot of songs streamed before you could even cover the costs of a recording session. "