So it turns out it's easy for artists to make money on SPOTIFY. All it takes, according to this MUSIC BUSINESS WORLDWIDE story based on unnamed sources and calculated guesses, is 1,200 premium accounts at $9.99/month, a couple playlists stuffed with 30-second songs purchased from music libraries, and maybe a bot to keep those playlists playing round the clock. Except for the $12K in monthly subscription fees, your 12-year-old niece could do it. And she'd be rolling in TESLAs by the end of the month, if MBW has its numbers right. Some questions: Is it in fact this easy? (Spotify "stopped short of confirming" what MBW says someone in Bulgaria actually did over several months in 2017.) Why isn't your 12-year-old niece doing it? Why isn't anyone else doing it? Or are they? Key question from a commenter: "What makes you think major labels haven't been doing similar things?" I'm at a loss to answer that one, save for the 30-second track thing, which isn't something major labels tend to have in their catalogs in large numbers. But in a subscription world that pays out based on plays, why would any label, publisher or manager not have 1,200 or more accounts chalking up plays 24 hours a day? What's the incentive not to? What's the business case against? What does payola look like this in this universe? Who suffers—besides everybody else who ends up sharing a smaller pool of royalties in what is, essentially, a zero-sum royalty system? Would a blockchain system help? How exactly?... I have no idea if the members of Norwegian black metal band TAAKE are Nazis or white-supremacists. Absent any new evidence, I'm more or less willing to take frontman HOEST's word that they are not. But the old evidence—starting with that swastika he wore onstage in 2007—is rather damning. And the fact that he's still trying to explain it away rather than simply apologize ("I regret it" or "I'm sorry" would be a good start) makes it easy to sympathize with the clubs who have canceled shows on Taake's US tour and the artists boycotting clubs that haven't. Free speech meet the free market... BET's three-night miniseries THE DEATH ROW CHRONICLES continues tonight with two hourlong episodes, "Enter Tupac" and "East vs. West," and finishes up with two more hours on Thursday... CHRIS CORNELL's widow, VICKY, chats about addiction with ABC's ROBIN ROBERTS this morning on GOOD MORNING AMERICA... The other O.A.R.... "I had a brother who played the guitar. He's naughty. And he's not much bigger than you actually." LIAM GALLAGHER interviewed by schoolchildren. As sweet and adorable as a high flying bird... Get better soon, KESHA... RIP JUDY BLAME.