I watched a program on music streaming and I came to understand why some popular groups stopped producing new albums. Take Spotify as example. Spotify pays about 0.004$/streaming (30 seconds and above). Of that, 30% goes to Spotify and the remaining 70% goes to digital music distributors, right holders and finally the artist. Let's say a song had 1,000,000 streaming per given window, this is equivalent pay of 4,000 US$ to be split between Spotify, Digital Distributors, Right Holders and the Artist(s). Therefore, performing live concerts with a band can be more attractive than producing new albums which is expensive. Actualy I came across few top artists who have pulled their songs from streaming platforms.