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- Aug 2023
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Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them (producers, broadcasters, booking agents, distributors, internet platforms…) are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
- for: carbon footprint - music industry, carbon footprint - concerts, carbon footprint - touring
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- Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
- producers,
- broadcasters,
- booking agents,
- distributors, internet platforms
- studios
- equipment and service providers
- are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
- Music or showbusiness artists, for example, depend more and more on touring and festivals.
- Namely because with a remuneration of 0,0034 dollars per listened music track,
- only 1% of music artists receive a minimum wage through streaming and
- because, in the meantime, sales in the physical media market (CD, vinyl) have collapsed,
- and streaming has not made up for loss of value.
- Unsurprisingly, the artists who are most successful at making a living receive the quasi-totality of their revenue from the tours they do via concerts or festivals
- (which incur high travel carbon footprint)
- And those have a tendency to increase at an unchecked rate.
- To attract the largest crowd possible, these artists demand
- more and more top billings
- with equally
- increasing fees and
- technical requirements.
- example
- Coldplay travels with no less than 2 kits of 32 articulated lorries on the road (for their “ecological” tour),
- Rammstein accounts for
- almost 100 articulated lorries
- 7 cargo planes for their tours and
- burns no less than 1000 litres of heating oil for their pyrotechnical effects at each concert (something the group proudly displays on social media).
- Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
- noteworthy
- due to loss of product sales, touring and concerts is the only way musicians can make money, and that comes at high carbon emission cost
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