Well, I'd love to as long as it's a bit like Roy Budd…I encourage you all to listen to my new album, it’s 1000000000 tracks, but they’re all only a nanosecond in duration...
It’s mostly jazz.
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Apple Music Tops Spotify With One Cent Paid Per Stream
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I don’t like music streaming anymore. I have started downloading music from iTunes again. I miss owning music.
Say you have a hit song. A million people are playing it once a day. This lasts for about half a year. That’s nearly two million dollars. For one song. And those estimates for a hit song are probably low.
Being a musician is hardly a get rich quick scheme, but if you’re good enough to get a reasonable amount of play over time it sounds like you could do quite well for yourself.
Artists have never made much money in album, CD, digital song sales. Artists made most of their money touring.
What the artists are getting from streaming services is mediocre at best.
What the artists are getting from streaming services is mediocre at best.
They should travel to places with less restrictions.It sucks artists are paid so little for their music and as a result need to rely on shows for income when they can't really play shows right now. A band I really enjoy has had to start a Patreon for support since the start of the pandemic
Never. The threshold for making music is so low there will always be music. And lots of it. It will not always all be Beethoven but there are so many choices. Musicians can self publish on Apple Music and YouTube. Will musicians get rich. Not many but most musicians do it for a hobby and fun just like most basketball players do it for fun.
I don’t like how I find a song I love and then one day is disappears from streaming and I can never get it back. If I owned it things might be different.
ksec is correct. Comparing a signed artist that receives 10-15% royalties from a record label to a self-signed artist who owns the recordings is a fallacy. Also, most people only stream a few songs from the album - not the entire album.
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We are seeing music becoming a casualty of tech ecosystems, where music streaming is increasingly being bundled with other content and services so that consumers don’t even associate music with a cost.
This leads to music being valued less. I don’t know how much tech blog writers are paid, but it’s clear that selling music direct to listeners is becoming less and less sustainable over time.
Spotify is the dishonest failed monopoly that actively exploits and harms musicians, while Tidal is the other extreme being musician-owned and runs fake stats to defraud their investors so artists can hit the jackpot. Apple Music is a happy medium I'm happy to be subscribed to.
Seconding this. I look forward now to Fridays not only because it’s the weekend but because it’s when the “New Music Mix” AM playlist gets updated. It’s very hit or miss at times but for sure there’s ALWAYS a song or two that will snowball into new songs for the rest of the week or month... sometimes it hits home so greatly that about 80% of the playlist rocks on.
+1 for the discoverability that otherwise wouldn’t happen so easily before the streaming world arrived.
Same people applauding family subscriptions for Apple music with like 5 ppl are moaning here artists aren't getting payed enough... Ie, artists should be payed more but they are not ready to do it themselves.
I listen to hundreds of different artists every month, wouldn't be able to that without streaming. On top of that I can purchase merch, support the ones needing it directly with Patreon or similar. Also the larger amount of artists i know about means I am way more likely to a concert/play if it happens to be my town.
Now if only they made the Music app not buggy as hell, playlist management more bearable, and local/streamed/purchased items less confusing....
You've got to give Jay-Z credit, he's scammed Masayoshi Son (buy in through Sprint) and now Jack Dorsey. If you think about how much he bought and sold Tidal in total for he made out pretty well for himself...
To be fair to Spotify, Apple use these services to entice people to buy $1000 phones.
Ultimately Apple services can be seen as additional marketing spend to get people into iOS hardware.
I dont believe Spotify have ever made a profit have they?
A lot of Spotify's money is now being spent on wooing podcasters in the hope of actually streaming content that they dont have to pay the record companies so much money for. Lets see how that works out...
Ultimately Apple services can be seen as additional marketing spend to get people into iOS hardware.
I dont believe Spotify have ever made a profit have they?
A lot of Spotify's money is now being spent on wooing podcasters in the hope of actually streaming content that they dont have to pay the record companies so much money for. Lets see how that works out...
I don't think that's true for Apple Music or TV+, given that they are available on non-Apple platforms.
They've been making profits since 2019. In this business it's a matter of scale.
Variety explained why this claim is bogus:
Why It’s Misleading to Say ‘Apple Music Pays Twice as Much Per Stream as Spotify’
They made a couple of quarterly profit reports, I think one in 2018 and one and 2019, but I don’t think they’ve posted a profit for a whole year. So I think we can say they aren’t a profitable company. Especially now as they’ve spent a lot of money on deals with podcasters etc.
Apple Music and tv are available on other platforms but that feels more like more about giving Apple customers more options than a real push for their services. i doubt it makes up much of their market share or earning at the moment. I could be wrong.
I think Apple is doing this because they have no chance of catching up to Spotify and video subscription services like Netflix if they are limited to Apple devices.
I still play my records and CDs. The quality from both can be amazingly good compared to mp3. It's nice going through album notes and seeing the different gatefold sleeves.