Light's Out

I don't want to dramatize Light's departure from Sellaband this week, but it was a sad moment when her profile page actually disappeared. Her reasons for focusing her attention elsewhere are completely her own, but truth is that her Sellaband account only barely made it past $4000 in almost a year. One of the most original and hardworking artists on Sellaband, who has at this time financed and recorded two CDs by herself, would not get to 50k within 10 years at this rate. To me, this means that Sellaband is still far from the green pastures where musicians from any genre will find an audience to finance their CD, given they have enough quality. Light's music will not die, but it will not live through Sellaband either. The Long Tail of Sellaband is still quite a short one...