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Apple Paying 0.2 Cents for Each Song Streamed Free During Apple Music Trial Period
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You are calculating using the free month trial rate.....
Well, technically you never own the song, so as long as you listen to it 404 times before you die, then the artist got more than they would have from just buying the song for $0.99, unless they died before that happened. I don't drive excessively, but there's a few songs on the radio I've probably heard a hundred or so times just within a few months, i.e. Uptown Funk.
I will let all of the other comments explain how fail this is.
If you have a million streams it starts stacking up, Apple has over 500 million credit cards with itunes accounts, so thre fan base is massive compared to spotify
Likewise. Completely happy with it, plus the Music Manager program effortlessly keeps my computer library synced with my cloud library. iOS app works great and can download to my i-device anything I want/need offline.
Anything Apple does with music has been un-intuitive, quirky and buggy. I think the first YEAR should be free while they work on bringing out a stable product.
But what counts as a "stream"? If the song is 3:45 long, does a stream count only if the user listens to all 3:45?...or what about 3:30? Or 1 minute? I rarely listen to 100.00% of any song...whether on my iPod or radio...I've had this listening habit for 30+ years. This topic is similar to the "count" feature of iDevices and iTunes...you have to listen to 100% of the song in order for the count to increase...drives me nuts...it should be if you listen to more than 50% of it (or gasp! make it configurable)
My employer has a WIFI network for personal use to help employees from having to use data for music and internet access. They also put in cell boosters for all four carriers. I get full bars in the can.
Yes actually. That's the only reason I don't go over my data cap, as work is where I listen to most of my music.
Don't blame Apple because telco's suck.
What employer wants you streaming music while working? Perhaps the employer should do so?
Only spotify free and that's not limited to 3 month.
Also, I think both don't pay enough.
Apple will serve billions of songs streamed daily while betting on after 3 months they will get subscribers. They will be paying out quite a bit upfront. If you think only millions of songs will stream per day then you never use Apple's Radio feature.
They probably get a kickback from the carriers.
Some people have less than that as a data cap, some have more.
I stream Pandora all the time in the car (which has video ads) and update my apps over the air (and podcasts) and I rarely go over 2.5GB.
Because I'm allowed to listen to music while working? I have music loaded on my iphone so I can listen to it.
I can't believe how dumb some of these comments are. Do you seriously lack the ability to critically think?
I can't believe how dumb some of these comments are. Do you seriously lack the ability to critically think?
Plus it says an additional .047 cents might be there. So, 669 could be 165 cents.
Also, you're saying Coldplay would be receiving about the same from you buying it outright. In reality, they make about $.89 from a $1.29 song sale (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-new-economics-of-the-music-industry-20111025?page=2)
So even with the idea of it being during only the trial process, they still would have made about twice as much! Not too shabby.
P.s. I love Coldplay.
So, for all of you complaining about the low amount that Apple is paying out, just keep repeating the songs!
Apologies for being a little off topic but a do have two questions:
1. Does the free trial begin at launch and end three months later regardless of when you sign up, or could I sign up, say this November, and get three months?
2. Any news of Sonos support?
1. Does the free trial begin at launch and end three months later regardless of when you sign up, or could I sign up, say this November, and get three months?
2. Any news of Sonos support?
To everyone saying that is cheap....
So in Spotify's first year, they had 13 billion downloads. Divide that by the free period of 3 months...(13 bil/4) and you get 3,250,000,000 streams...multiply by 0.02 and that is $65 million worth of free music. One could argue that Apple will crush this given everyone who has an iPhone will catch on. Mind you these are year ONE numbers for Spotify. By the end of the year, there will be around 300 million active iPhones. Let's say 1/6th of those use Apple Music. 50 million users. 65 streams a person is all that would take.
So in Spotify's first year, they had 13 billion downloads. Divide that by the free period of 3 months...(13 bil/4) and you get 3,250,000,000 streams...multiply by 0.02 and that is $65 million worth of free music. One could argue that Apple will crush this given everyone who has an iPhone will catch on. Mind you these are year ONE numbers for Spotify. By the end of the year, there will be around 300 million active iPhones. Let's say 1/6th of those use Apple Music. 50 million users. 65 streams a person is all that would take.
Well that sounds like something I would be interested in. How about Apple lets me pay them 0.5 cents per song I stream instead of paying a monthly subscription and they are making a 100% margin and I am happy because I can control my costs
$10 per 4040
$100 per 40400
$1000 per 404,400
$10,000 per 4,044,000
$100,000 per 40,440,000
$1,000,000 per 404,400,000
Seems fair to me
Can someone explain this to me? I don't see the big deal. This is a new service, so what were the artists losing out on if the service was free for the first three months aside from exposure? So when it does become a pay model, if anything, they're going to be more popular- and make more money.