promotion, thats the main advantage of being on a label.
Discussion
How do bitcoin and nostr fix this?
I’m no expert on this, but a problem I would like to see addressed is rewarding music curators.
On YouTube creators get rewarded, but in the past radio DJs were highly valued to unearth new talent.
Rewarding the music curators not just the creators would help unearth and promote new talent.
Definitely something nostr can fix
BTC feels like a trade & if you’re an artist who can exchange things for what you truly need, free promotion for example, that’s a huge asset. Audiences want to donate to artists as well, making that seamless is a money maker.
My first thought is that promotion isn’t really fixed by bitcoin/nostr. But Bitcoin does make it possible to stream sats to the artist while listening to their music.. that could be cool. Podcast apps are already doing that, when music
Hmm ya know what, lets imagine a “perfect” world where V4V completely replaces the ad model. In this world, promotion no longer matters. All that matters is the ability of the artist to produce high quality content in exchange for pure monetary energy. In this world, one would help artists not by helping them expand their reach, but by helping them increase both the quality and quantity of their content. Give them tools to collaborate with other artists frictionlessly.
…was literally having this convo in my engineering class. We want to focus on quality too & having programmer friends can help save hours on fixing software, in what a programmer can do in seconds.