Fair points and I can see your perspective, but also think you&#x27;re kind of too focused on the notion of streaming revenue as the goal for unsigned bands&#x2F;musicians&#x2F;artists. Even signed to a major label, the income is negligible.<p>However in other avenues, such as &#x27;music review&#x27; and licensing for film&#x2F;commercials, there&#x27;s a genuine thirst for finding the &quot;next big thing&quot; and getting involved with the artist before the &#x27;long tail&#x27; even gets started. My favorite example is Chvrches, which turned free publicity into a viable career. Yes, there are only a few at the top who have the quality and capability, but that&#x27;s kind of the point of curation, review, and promotions teams - if they don&#x27;t find something new, somebody else will.<p>Remember all that buzz around whichever indie&#x2F;unknown group was featured in an Apple commercial? That&#x27;s more what I&#x27;m talking about, because they probably made more from the commercial and initial sales bump than they ever will&#x2F;would from streaming revenue, and that&#x27;s just the nature of the business. Hot today, cold tomorrow, better make something new to stay in the game.