Someone’s making money, and in true fashion with the music industry, it’s not the artists.
Who's making tons of money from streaming 14 thousand songs over the internet? I can't imagine this brought in a serious amount of revenue for anyone.
So 14 thousands performance is almost a half million dollar lost of revenue, stolen by those streaming services. Worse, they claim its all moral and legal.
$4 for 14k performances of a streamed song seems totally reasonable to me. If you own the song 100% then charge more.
[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215074/RIAA_request_...
We're talking about streaming audio over the internet, though. I don't think one listen of a song brings in $20 in revenue (advertising and subscriber fees).
Of course, if the $30 figure is off, and it was really only $0.30 a performance you're right.