Johnson’s piece, of course, rankled people who have devoted a lot of time to pondering this issue. The Future of Music Coalition penned a lengthy response to the article on their website, basically saying that statistics about wages do not take into account the widely varying amounts of success that people employed in the industry experience. Not everyone can be Kanye West but throwing a few people of his stature into the numbers paints a different picture than the reality faced by typical artists.

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