The Week contest: Streaming pittance
This week's question: The streaming era has been far from lucrative for musicians, with major platforms paying out an average of only $0.0046 each time a song is streamed. If a classic rock or pop act were to write a song about the lousy economics of streaming, what should the song be titled?
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THE WINNER: "House of the Falling Sum"
Nechamah Goldfarb, Kingston, Pennsylvania
SECOND PLACE: "Wannabe (Paid More)"
Kay Meyer, Elkhorn, Wisconsin
THIRD PLACE: "Cheap Streams Are Made of These"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Can't Buy Me Lunch"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Spotify Killed the Video Star"
Leighton Armitage, Mercer Island, Washington
"Livin' La Vida Broke-a"
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
"Unpaid Melody"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Shorted People"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"She Works Hard for No Money"
Jeff Morris, Alexandria, Virginia
"Brother, Can You Spare 46 Hundredths Of A Dime?"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
"Penny Drain"
Sebastian de Assis, Corvallis, Oregon
"How Cheap Is Your Love?"
Phyllis Loveridge, Tamarac, Florida
"Minimum Wage Against the Machine"
Roxanne Rhodes, New Port Richey, Florida
"Upload 16 Tunes, What Do You Get?"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"Nothing for Money"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Sittin' on the Dock of Low Pay"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"Boulevard of Broken Streams"
Joshua Bloomberg, Encino, California
"Born to Run (Out of Money)"
Mary King, Ponce Inlet, Florida
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