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A few years ago, I gave my distributor permission to distribute the 7 Tempus Fugit albums on streaming platforms. Last month he informed me that one of my tracks had been played 5,485,633 times on facebook and that my royalties for these broadcasts amounted to 56.51€. Two things amaze me about this information: that one of my tracks was streamed by over 5 million unique listeners in one month, and that Facebook only owes me €56.51 for these streams.

The track lasts 3min53s, and considering that it has to be listened to more than 80% to be counted (and therefore royalties paid), we're talking about more than 32 years of continuous music!

I remember a time, before streaming, when a radio broadcast of a song brought in €160 and the mechanical reproduction rights were €5 per CD...

Need we remind facebook that the creation of music, like all intellectual activities is time-consuming and requires a certain amount of material resources? It's worrying to see that the streaming platforms so popular with the younger generation barely pay the artists behind their huge profits.

There's still one place on the internet where you can listen to and buy music with the guarantee that the musicians who created it are paid a fair wage: bandcamp. So take a look at what I'm proposing on this excellent platform and stop using the streaming platforms that are massacring creation all over the world.