Posted: 6/8/18 at 11:07pm
The album cost upwards of $300,000 - streaming would not help it pay back at all. Spotify pays between $0.001 and $0.007 per stream, so with the typical Broadway cast album costing an average between $250,000 and $500,000, 100 million streams are necessary to recoup its production costs – without paying the costs of royalties for the show or songwriters or distribution. Of the approximately 320 million people living in the United States, one-third of the population would have to stream a show to recoup its production costs just from streaming. That's why we don't put it on streaming right away.
MichelleCraig said: "I pay for bothApple Music and Spotify. Currently, it’s not available on either of these services. I think someone said earlier that this record label doesn’t release digitally forsometimes up to a year. That’s a shame as they’d realize revenues now from digital. In a year, demand will not be so great...or a lot of people will have moved on to next year’s cast albums. All of the majors release their cast albums day-and-date with the physical release. I “get” that this label wants to sell physical discs, but most ofthe audience has moved on to digital services. It’s just the way things are now...
i am listening to the recording on Vulture now. It’s quite good.I’ll “buy it” when it’s available on Apple Music or Spotify. Until then, the Original Broadway Cast recording and the London Cast recording, both with JulieAndrews,and the later in stereo, aren’t too shabby...
Again, though, this new recording does not disappoint. It is beautifully produced."
