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Adele's New Album Won't Be Available on Apple Music

I'd love to buy CD's, or even vinyl, again but I know I will regret it sooner or later. I'm one of those who can't decide between buying songs/albums or streaming music, especially because in the end I only end up playing the same songs.

I do miss the nostalgia of playing a CD though, it really is a whole different experience than just pressing play in iTunes :)
 
OllyW said:
CD sales are still huge, last year the total global income from physical music sales was equal to the combined income from digital downloads and streaming services. The balance is shifting towards downloads and streaming but there is still a healthy market for the silver disc. :)
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Yeah I agree - streaming/downloads are absolutely massive, same with movies and tv, I do think that some people think that DVDs and CDs are completely dead today when as you say there is still a healthy market :p
 
Why the hell would she think that Apple wanted to sell physical copies of her album in their stores? What am I missing here? Have I completely missed the CD section in the Apple stores?
 
seventhedition said:
Really finding it hard to justify my continued subscription to Apple Music if I can't get the music I want when it comes out. If I still have to buy certain songs/albums separately, why am I paying $10/month? Think I will cancel and go back to just purchasing the songs/albums I want.
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Music streaming's greatest draw is listening to a large library of a variety of music. I'm sure this will be available in some months after the initial rush to buy the album, just like 1989.
 
theSeb said:
Why the hell would she think that Apple wanted to sell physical copies of her album in their stores? What am I missing here? Have I completely missed the CD section in the Apple stores?
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I don't know if we know the whole story there. I've felt that perhaps she was going to sell a physical edition with no CD but a download code, so that you had the album booklet etc in some sort of a new design.
 
I understand people saying that piracy is wrong, but just because it is wrong doesn't change the fact that people will do it if they can't access products in the way that they prefer. Ultimately if someone wants to only pay for music by streaming from Apple music then that's the way they will do it, and everything not on there will be pirated. It's therefore nonsense to say "people shouldn't pirate it and should buy the cd", because we all know that they won't.

Instead of labels hoping that pirates will have a moral epiphany, perhaps they should discourage piracy by offering music using a distribution method that everyone is willing to pay for.
 
If you are a Spotify or Google Play Music, music subscriber in the USA and paying $9.99 then please realise how very lucky you are.!

Here in the UK we pay about $15.30 a month.

I have been a streaming subscriber since soon after they started.

I'm with Google Play Music now and love it. I listen to music for hours everyday. Never watch TV.

In the last six years I've bought about three cds/ purchased downloads.

The Beatles 1 (2015)
The Beatles at BBC Vol 2
(Taylor Swift 1989 refunded money by GPM due to it being not my thing)

Guess why?!

I pay around £8.50 a month because I look out for the 15-20% off Google Play vouchers, but factor in occasional cds (the ones not on GPM).

If you are in USA just buy the odd cd if you really want it and its not on your streaming service. If you are in the UK get the 15-20% off vouchers and do the same.

$9.99 a month is an _amazing_ price- to have access to a huge record store!

£8.50 ain't bad either.

cheers
 
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I'm guessing that the album will hit platinum despite all the whining and acts of piracy around here. A few keyboard warriors against the world!
 
Well Apple refused to sell her mug in their Apple stores. I'm sure her manager felt that it shouldn't be on apple music either...

not that I really care, for me she sounds like a loud drunk girl singing in a bar...but I guess that's what the world likes....
 
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Somehow I feel as though this should come as a great loss to me, but it really doesn't.

By the way, maybe such a play could make Bieber relevant.

(note: I didn't say "again", and "relevant" doesn't necessarily mean "worth listening to".)
 
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I don't understand why anyone is 'forced to pirate'. Adele's album is on the iTunes store, it will be available digitally other ways and physically at a reasonable price. I don't pirate anything, and guess what since I don;t have a lot of money, it means waiting till I do to buy albums movies etc.

Apple recently put its prices up for pretty much everything in Australia meaning its out of reach for a lot of people now. Does that mean that people are 'forced' to break into Apple stores and steal? Why is that different to music piracy?
 
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I'm guessing that the album will hit platinum despite all the whining and acts of piracy around here. A few keyboard warriors against the world!
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There are so many people in the world, that if your album doesn't hit platinum, you really suck. It only takes a million album sales. Worldwide, that is nothing. Same with movies. That's why there are so many crappy movies. So many people willing to see anything, that any movie company can make money on anything. Comes down to so many people, the internet and lots of disposable income.
 
dmylrea said:
There are so many people in the world, that if your album doesn't hit platinum, you really suck. It only takes a million album sales. Worldwide, that is nothing. Same with movies. That's why there are so many crappy movies. So many people willing to see anything, that any movie company can make money on anything. Comes down to so many people, the internet and lots of disposable income.
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That is so not true. So many amazing albums never have and will never hit platinum due to how the industry works. How artists are exposed to the public etc. Also - it may come as a shock but music taste varies from person to person. It is subjective. Numbers of my favorite albums and artists will never go platinum.
 
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penajmz said:
Greedy. This is just to force people to buy the full album instead of just streaming it. My guess is this will also force lots of people to pirate it.
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How are people "forced" to pirate it? That just sounds like those people are over entitled brats who think everything should just be given to them. And where is the "greed"??? It's HER music. She can sell it however she wants.... You do not HAVE to buy it.
 
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Good! Then I won't be tempted to listen to it outta curiosity, and can continue to work on squeezing my head to the size of a peanut using a massive overdose of my death metal playlist, played at 120dB :D
 
Well the Hello song seems to be on Apple Music this morning, I just played it. So what is this all about again?
 
Lostanddamned said:
Go on Adele, push people to buy it physically too; make it only available C̶D̶, C̶a̶s̶s̶e̶t̶t̶e̶, V̶i̶n̶y̶l̶, 8̶-t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶, r̶e̶e̶l̶-t̶o̶-r̶e̶e̶l̶, Wax Cylinder
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Bow down before the MiniDisc Master Race!
 
valkraider said:
Absolutely not true.
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Depends on the album. If it's you and your pals in your garage it can be cheap but if you need to hire a bunch of players (and yeah, some genres call for that) it can get very expensive.
 
uwdude said:
Well the Hello song seems to be on Apple Music this morning, I just played it. So what is this all about again?
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