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The billion-dollar dance music industry that doesn’t pay the people who built it

August 7, 2026

The billion-dollar dance music industry that doesn’t pay the people who built it

We Rave You has published a feature examining the gap between the music industry's booming headline figures and the earnings of the artists behind them. While streaming consumption keeps climbing and catalogue sales command huge sums, the piece argues that per-stream payouts remain vanishingly small, leaving many dance music creators struggling to earn a living from their work.

— Aggregated by DJ Radar. Original report via We Rave You: weraveyou.com

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