{"items": [{"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/617763459952?comment_id=617770391062", "anchor": "fb-617770391062", "service": "fb", "text": "Is Pandora really comparable to radio? I would think it's much more like iTunes, where a purchase gets the artist significantly more, and for most songs, most users will not play them enough times after buying them to reverse that.", "timestamp": "1372173182"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/617763459952?comment_id=617786009762", "anchor": "fb-617786009762", "service": "fb", "text": "I think that Jeff's comparison is valid.  My experience with Pandora suggests that it's more like radio than like iTunes.", "timestamp": "1372183075"}, {"author": "Cory", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/617763459952?comment_id=617812885902", "anchor": "fb-617812885902", "service": "fb", "text": "ok I just skimmed it... but per play on Pandora I'm assuming is each time it plays on your personal radio station, which means its playing for ONE person (well maybe a couple), but it may be playing for one person many many times (if lots of people like it), whereas on a radio its playing for all those people at once, so it makes since it should be a lot higher.", "timestamp": "1372200181"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1372310195139", "service": "gp", "text": "I can see how that would feel like a bad deal to the artist. In order for the artist to make $1 off me listening to an individual song on Pandora, I'd have to listen to it over 60k times. If I buy a song off iTunes for $1, I'm not going to listen to it even a fraction of that time. Say the artist gets just 1% of that, so they just need to make it to 1c- that's still over 600 plays on Pandora to equal the iTunes revenue, which is an order of magnitude more than anything in my music library has.\n<br>\n<br>\nThen again, since Pandora makes no revenue off of me at all (yay Adblock)...", "timestamp": 1372310195}]}