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  1. Jared KF Jones
    11/12/2016

    I enjoyed this article. It’s nice to see Christian music becoming more mainstream.

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  2. AN
    06/26/2017

    Just to clarify the fourth to last paragraph on royalties and listener-supported radio. It’s not that listener-supported radio can’t pay artists as much as commercial radio because their budgets are smaller. There are different royalty rates for commercial radio stations compared to the rates paid by nonprofit radio. Another point of different is that on-air broadcast radio stations pay mechanical rights (to the songwriter) but not performance rights (to the artist). Digital radio has to pay both mechanical and performance rights, but they pay according to number of streams vs. a flat rate per minute. So, it’s all pretty complicated and thus not really possible to imply that listener-supported radio stations are a substantial reason that Christian artists aren’t making lots of money. Finally, Christian music hasn’t been an afterthought for the secular music market for some years now–the 2000s saw secular media giants buying up lots of independent Christian labels in order to cash in on the market.

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