Following on a estimate of the music industry collections from UK Radio stations, I have done my best to estimate effective per spin per listener rates collected from US Radio stations. Importantly, the goal here was to estimate the effective value of each radio spin *per listener* so that rate can be compared to not [...]

In the context of a great deal of debate over the value of streams on new music services, Spotify in particular, I have been working on some back-of-the-napkin (or serviette) estimates of the value of not only listens per listener to purchased tracks, but also spins per listener on major radio broadcasters. This week, I [...]