Jango makes me curious? It cost $30 for 1000 plays or $.03 per song. That looks good on paper.

If 1,000 artists spend $30 they get a total of 1,000,000 plays.
My first question is what constitutes a play?

1. The number of times your song is played regardless of the number of people that listen to it or,

2. Every person that listens to your song is counted as one play.

If the answer is #2 then you pay $.03 for a potential new customer. Not bad if you convert one play to a sale! But, if 1,000 people listen to your song on Day 1, then there is no more repetitions left. On Day 2 it costs another $30 to get more repetitions. Depending how many people hear your song each day, you could spend a lot of money by the end of the year if you want serioius repetitions. Good for Jango?

If the average song is 3.5 minutes long and each of the 1,000 artists above get a total of 1,000,000 plays that translates into 3,500,000 minutes of play time, or 58,333 hours, or 2,430 days. Jango either has to have a lot of listeners or a lot of stations or a combination of both just to handle one song from 1,000 artists. If Jango has 1M listeners then one station works fine, but if they only have 100 or 1,000 listeners then they need a lots stations or lots of time to get through all the plays.

Does anyone know if they offer any listener incentives or do they just force the listener to respond to the song when it plays.

Jango pays royalties and streaming bandwidth costs, who wants to do the cost basis calculation on that?

Last edited by ArtistPreneur; 04/24/09 10:55 PM.