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.
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.
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.It still doesn’t sound very much for the artists!!!!
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.With these rates, Musicians are an endangered species. Music is an art on the verge of extinction...
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.I don’t like music streaming anymore. I have started downloading music from iTunes again. I miss owning music.
do some math. If you bought an Album and played it only 30 times with an average of 15 songs, that is $4.50 directly to artist. In traditional CD sales "Artists can receive 10% – 15% of suggested album retail minus packaging costs." https://www.recordingconnection.com...epreneurs/how-do-record-labels-turn-a-profit/
So that is $1.50 on a $15 Album
Um.... It is $4.5 to Music Right Holder. Not Artist
How come a person that works at Apple or Spotify from 9-5 job earns more than a song than streamed over 100 million times...?
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.I think that the true power of Apple Music and Spotify is that it allows users to find more music that otherwise they would not regularly purchase, which drives more money to artists in general.
I am sure that I am not the only one that randomly finds an interesting song (maybe heard it on tv etc.) by someone I don't even know, starts listening to it, then listens to more songs by the same artist and then just moves to similar artists for a while.
More than that, Spotify would not exist with our their music.Wow this is a terrible take lol. “I’m giving you an audience so just be grateful for the crumbs I throw your way.”
Sometimes I think we forget that musician is a job for some, and not everyone is a huge artist that this doesn’t affect. Especially now. Audience can mainly convert to money when they’re touring, and when you’re in the middle of a panorama...
Didn’t Tital just sell out to Square?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.
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.Is it out of the realm of possibilities that worldwide, top songs are played 1,000,000 times a day? That's $10,000 per day @ 1 cent, $5,000 @ 1/2 cent. PER DAY. I don't feel too sad for artists.
Didn’t Tital just sell out to Square?
I don't think that's true for Apple Music or TV+, given that they are available on non-Apple platforms.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.
They've been making profits since 2019. In this business it's a matter of scale.I dont believe Spotify have ever made a profit have they?
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.
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.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 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.I don’t like music streaming anymore. I have started downloading music from iTunes again. I miss owning music.