WE WANT TO VALUE MUSIC.
Streaming services are increasingly dominating the music industry.
What seems comfortable to many users of these services is very much to the disadvantage of the artists, as they hardly earn anything, if anything at all. In most cases, it's not even enough to cover production costs, let alone live off of it. The consequences of this less and less music productions. The entire music industry suffers from this. Also many music studios had to give up, because productions in studios are no longer financially viable for musicians.
DON PHARAO wants to give musicians a platform again with which they can not only make themselves heard, but also earn with their music through a fair share of the revenues.
WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT DON PHARAO THAN STREAMING SERVICES?
Our approach is a fair participation of the artists. You support the artists directly with every download or purchase of a CD or Vinyl Record. Unlike the current music industry standards, the shares go to the artists from the first download or purchase.
Download-Stream from DON PHARAO
Price for one album = 9,99 €
Artists share = 70%1
1 download/purchase = 6,99 €2
*Average price for one album
1Applies to the sale of finished production
2Albums can also be streamed online
Streaming services
Average earnings per stream (title) = approx. 0.005 €*.
To reach the same earnings at least 1 title has to be streamed
1.398 times for 6,99 €
*Average of all streaming services.
WE CAN ONLY ACHIVE THIS WITH
YOUR SUPPORT.
DON PHARAO intends to use the revenue to finance further productions and thus give more talented artists a chance to be heard.
DON PHARAO also wants to give artists who have already completed a production the opportunity to release it without having to rely on the major streaming services. Most services set a threshold of 1,000 streams per year in order to monetize music. Songs below this threshold are not included in the calculation of the license payment pool and the artists receive no remuneration.
For many of these artists, however, streaming services are unfortunately the only way to release their productions, even though they know that they will earn little or nothing from them.
WE WANT TO VALUE MUSICIANS.
With most streaming services, you get the name of the artist and the song title – nothing else.
You learn nothing about the musicians involved or who else was involved in the production. What was standard on record and CD covers is almost non-existent today.
DON PHARAO would like to mention the names of all those who were involved in the production: Musicians, producers, sound engineers, studios, composers, lyricists, graphic designers, photographers.
WE WANT YOU TO OWN YOUR MUSIC.
Music purchased through streaming services can usually only be played in the corresponding apps. As a rule, exporting music to other media is either impossible or extremely complicated. DON PHARAO does not currently offer a native app. On mobile devices (iOS, Android), pages can be added to the home screen from the browser. This gives you direct, quick access to DON PHARAO without having to open the page in your browser first.
We offer the music on DON PHARAO as a download, on CD*, or on vinyl*. The music can also be streamed online after purchase. You decide when and on which device you want to listen to your music. Once downloaded, the music remains your property* and not just for as long as you have a subscription to the streaming service.
Here you can find out how you can use your music downloads and how you can get them onto all your devices, PC, smartphone, tablets, etc.
*Unterschiedlich, je nach Projekt und Künstler
**Das bezieht sich ausschließlich auf die Nutzungsrechte, nicht die Urheberrechte der Musik.
A HYPE WITH CONSEQUENCES
Currently, it is claimed that streaming is the future. But this also means that you no longer control (or can control) music or "listening to music" yourself, but are dependent on the music you want to listen to being and remaining available online.
Following this hype, musicians publish as a matter of course on the streaming services, hoping to participate in this hype or even to earn money. However, this hope is only fulfilled for a few at the top. For many, unfortunately, it's "being there is everything."
The streaming services earn billions - the artists less than ever before, if at all. But instead of letting the artists share in these billions, the services are optimized even more to be able to use them as an advertising platform. Instead of "simply" listening to music, you may have to endure advertising that can only be turned off by an expensive premium subscription.
