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Musician Lil Uzi Vert is trying to buy a planet?
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Grimes is well-known for making some outlandish claims.
That her and her friend made?
To eliminate blue light from her vision?
To cure seasonal depression?
Nor am I going to go into the logistics of how a humanactually owns a damn planet.
Instead, Im going to accept all this on face value.
Then, Im going to use cold, hard facts to get the answers we deserve.
The next question is how long would that take to get to?
This would work out to be293,480 weeks.
How will he fund this five-and-a-half thousand year journey?
One potential route is by streaming his own music along the journey.
Currently, Lil Uzi Vert has released two proper studio albums:Luv Is Rage 2andEternal Atake.
Combined, the standard editions of both run to118 minutes and 26 secondsacross34 tracks.
On average then, each track is209 secondslong.
This would give him the opportunity to listen to849,265,837 of his songsduring his5,625 year journey.
Accordingto this site, the average Spotify pay out per stream is$0.004.
This means Lil Uzi Vert would earn roughly$3,397,063during his trip to his beloved WASP-127 b.
So, what have we learned?
Mainly that streaming services are totally fucking over artists.
And side from that?
WASP-127 b is a long-ass way away.
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