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Pandora wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne, they get nearly $3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them more. According to Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, Pandora will pay over two thousand artists $10,000 each over the next 12 months. Yeah it not a milli a milli for every artist but that still a solid chunk of change! The top dogs in music obviously get a lot of money: Drake $3 million Lil Wayne $3 million Coldplay $1 million Adele $1 million Wiz Khalifa $1 mill
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