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A Stream is Not a Stream: How Geography Affects the Economics of Music Streaming
Streaming royalties' value for artists depends on their geographic location, a point underscored in Spotify's latest Loud & Clear report.
As Page wrote in his roundup of 2023 global recorded music revenues, Mexican artists’ U.S. streams were worth more than three times what they would have earned had they originated in their home country. Millions of Americans have moved to states with lower costs of living in recent years, with some leaving the country for safe havens in Europe as political discourse turned sour. Digital nomadism goes internationally, too, as people work remotely from faraway places — co-working spaces have sprouted on the Indonesian island of Bali, for example — with a substantially lower cost of living.
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