{"id":17989,"date":"2012-11-12T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17989"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:12:54","slug":"drake-and-lil-wayne-set-to-rake-in-3000000-annually-in-pandora-revenue-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17989","title":{"rendered":"Drake And Lil Wayne Set To Rake In $3,000,000 Annually In Pandora Revenue Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Album sales are down all across the board, but thanks to streaming music platforms like Pandora musicians are about to cash out.<\/p>\n<p>According to the streaming music site&#8217;s blog site, top earners like <strong>Wiz Khalifa<\/strong> and <strong>Coldplay<\/strong> are awaiting $1,000,000 payouts at the end of the year. The sites two top earners, <strong>Drake<\/strong> and <strong>Lil Wayne<\/strong> are looking to cash out to upwards of $3,000,000 at the end of the year as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This revenue stream is meaningful. I remember the many years I spent in a band when earning an additional thousand dollars a month would have been the difference between making music an avocation and a hobby,&#8221; says<strong> Tim Westergren<\/strong>, founder of Pandora. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking here about the very real possibility of creating, for the first time ever, an actual musicians middle class.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album sales are down all across the board, but thanks to streaming music platforms like Pandora musicians are about to cash out. According to the streaming music site&#8217;s blog site, top earners like Wiz Khalifa and Coldplay are awaiting $1,000,000 payouts at the end of the year. The sites two top earners, Drake and Lil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}