Apple Music Tops Spotify With One Cent Paid Per Stream

[UBS28]

Exactly why I won't use Spotify. They are the biggest by so much, where do they spend the money they don't pay artists? Not in quality software, must be CEO pay and such.

So are you going to compare Apple TV with Netflix also, when it is quite clear that Apple has other streams of income?

 

[UBS28]

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 agree. In the end, local music sounds best to me. Even Tidal sounds quite bad actually.

But for bluetooth headphone usage, streaming music is fine ofcourse.

 

[Peperino]

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.

Please enlighten all of us with how composer- songwriters can make a living (without performing live concerts). Furthermore, your comparison is ridiculous. Most basketball players earn over millions of dollars per year.

 

[Peperino]

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.

Once again, corporations are ripping off and making money at the expense of the Artists. Many artists-songwriters, do not even have control over their own music. So if they want not to play in a particular platform (YouTube, Spotify, etc) they do not have that option.
It is really sad what Apple, Spotify, YouTube, etc have done to the music industry.

 

[hatchettjack]

I say bring back 8 track tapes

 

[thelion7]

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.

I have to agree with @yaxomoxay on this one. If it wasn’t for the likes of Apple Music and Spotify (back in the day before Apple Music) I wouldn’t be listening to anywhere near as many artists that I am now. Simply through experimentation

So yes. In one vain an artist might receive less per Music App/Web site Stream than they would per physical album sale but if I were to ask the vast majority of the population ‘When was the last time you bought a physical CD/LP or bought the entire album on digital a platform for example ITunes?’

I think I’d be laughed at hysterically…

Granted I still appreciate that there’s still a good community of Music lovers out there who love CDs and physical media. I mean I too, will occasionally buy the LP of my absolute favourite albums as my subtle way of really honouring my favourite music.

But I still feel it’s a very niche market these days when compared to the average person and their consumption habits.

Besides if I did decide to buy either as an iTunes album or as a physical CD every single album, Ep or single that I’ve enjoyed in the last decade (give or take)

I’d both have no shelf space and potentially no house to even put them in as I’d be spending all of my bill money on CDs…

Of course everyone is different and I mean no disrespect but I just feel as a collective the average world is changing and the industry also has to change with it.