What would happen if donations were made social?<p>I've been thinking about a crowdfunding music site based on this principal.<p>-Artists would post their music for free
-Anytime a User downloaded/streamed music it would get tracked on their profile
-Users would be able to donate money to an Artist and donations would be tracked on their profile
-Users would have the ability to enable/disable advertisements. The revenue from advertisements would count towards Artist donations
-Users would be awarded "badges" based on donations
-Users would have a direct line of communication with the Artist via some social community
-Venues would be able to see which Artists in their area were receiving the most donations and contract the Artists for shows.<p>There's a sense of "discovering" an artist that I think would be amplified because Users would have a record of who contributed to Artists before they became famous.
Users would have more of an impact on which direction the music they like moved in.<p>It's a really rough brain sketch.
Thoughts?