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Britney Spears' New Album 'Glory' to Stream Exclusively on Apple Music

Thunderhawks said:
There is a big change in listening habits as one gets older.

As a teenager, I used to be in front of the radio at night, ready to TAPE anything new or the latest.
(Remember TAPES?) to have it at parties etc. Also, following ones favorites.

Then life takes over for 30 years with a job, family etc. and one listens to the occasional song, buying an album (Remember albums?) or later CDs (Remember CDs?)

Once one grows out of music due to other interests or age, it becomes clear that

a) the music scene is oversaturated with a lot of mediocre talent and fads
b) it is not important at all
c) we all go back to the music we grew up with (Which we have, so no purchase necessary)

So, anybody with half a brain just has to eventually concede that there is no point to jump onto anything exclusive.

I look at it this way:

If I have lived all my life without something that comes along, I can still continue to do so.

All a matter of patience and willpower. There are no must haves (well maybe in business),
but a lot of great to have products.

Unfortunately today's immediate gratification generation doesn't seem to be able to see what is really important.
How else can a Paris Hilton, Kardashians or other fake people become celebrities?
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Can't agree more. Kids really push other things you thought were important into the background (and show you they weren't that important). I'm just getting back into some music discovery again after a good period "out of the game." That's one thing for which streaming seems to be useful to me, and we have Amazon Prime (for the shipping) so that's the service I'm using.
 
palmerc said:
I don't think that is true. First, he with the most money wins. Apple will likely have the most exclusives. Second, a song that isn't on your music service doesn't exist. If Apple can get to 80-90% of the streaming market does a non Apple Music track exist as far as the world is concerned?

While buying and gutting Spotify might be disallowed, exclusive tracks are something Apple can do and afford.
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having the most exclusives doesnt mean that those exclusives are quality. case and point britney here.

and it DOES hurt everybody especially when it comes to up and coming bands/artists.
ill admit tidal is tanking horribly but spotify is still a strong competitor to apple music and, for example, if a new group/band/artist were to start their career with spotify+youtube, and experience some animosity form apple music at their early stages, that could do a lot of damage later down the road if they do become big artists. and that damage can be felt on both sides, Apple doesnt get to say it has "everything" if they keep exclusives and alienating people, causing other streaming services to create exclusives to be able to compete(this is similar to all the netflix/hulu/ETC exclusives out there) but it also hurts the artist. IF you already pay for apple music, but you love a new artist you are not going to want to pay another fee every month just for them, which usually leads to pirating them.
this also hurts the artist as they could possibly have a much larger audience and following if they didnt get stuck doing exclusive deals.
Sure this helps now, but look at tidal, in the end, its just hurting the smaller artists who could have a much larger audience to work with, and at the time tidal was up and coming and looked like a shiny deal, now all of them are having to break contracts or go down with the ship and then still have to find a way to work into apple music or spotify down the road.

Like sure britney spears is a big artist, she needs very little effort to get an album out there and make it popular, but a small band who is just starting, could get held back because they signed a deal while they were small to do exclusives with apple, but what if 5 years down the road, apple music starts to tank? that artist could still be tied to this tanking streaming service. obviously not likely in apples case, but the point still stands

this is the beginning of a streaming war, and could get much worse in the future. because not only are we dealing with the streaming services but with record labels and the artist. is the end it only hurts the customers.
i don't want to pay 9.99 for spotify to listen to new bands but have to pay 9.99 a month to also get apple music to listen to big names. its completely ridiculous.
IF you like "popular" music and only "popular" music apple music is nice, but a lot of us in the world may like some lesser known bands, i for one happen to be a fan of some of the more Underground metal variety, Black metal, death metal, hardcore, ETC. something that Apple seems to feel is not an important genre(despite having tens of millions of fans world wide and having some massive music events/concerts/festivals) so i currently use Spotify, who has a much better coverage of these genre's (also could be said for the EDM genre)
but if i want big names in the Hip-Hop world (like possible Dre's new album, or new eminem rumored to be an apple exclusive, or like my girlfriend who is a fan of britney spears or taylor swift, might also have this issue) ill have to also pay for apple music or pay to download from iTunes? in the end it only hurts us.
 
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Thunderhawks said:
There is a big change in listening habits as one gets older.

As a teenager, I used to be in front of the radio at night, ready to TAPE anything new or the latest.
(Remember TAPES?) to have it at parties etc. Also, following ones favorites.

Then life takes over for 30 years with a job, family etc. and one listens to the occasional song, buying an album (Remember albums?) or later CDs (Remember CDs?)

Once one grows out of music due to other interests or age, it becomes clear that

a) the music scene is oversaturated with a lot of mediocre talent and fads
b) it is not important at all
c) we all go back to the music we grew up with (Which we have, so no purchase necessary)

So, anybody with half a brain just has to eventually concede that there is no point to jump onto anything exclusive.

I look at it this way:

If I have lived all my life without something that comes along, I can still continue to do so.

All a matter of patience and willpower. There are no must haves (well maybe in business),
but a lot of great to have products.

Unfortunately today's immediate gratification generation doesn't seem to be able to see what is really important.
How else can a Paris Hilton, Kardashians or other fake people become celebrities?
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I used to listen to something from tape when I was 10 or so. And I was also using low end mo3 player to listen to music when I was not too old, maybe 15 around. I also used CD and even until now, to be a source of new albums. I think I am now around 25, but I have the same feeling as you have, although I listen to Japanese song way more than English song.

Ha, I think I am 25 but I feel I am already 65.
 
YEAH! Auto Tune music now can we get some real music streaming and not EDM but some classic electronic music as exclusives not grayed out albums.
 
princessgleek said:
Apple exclusives are only for the most part a couple of weeks then they land everywhere else, I do expect a full other high profile albums to be exclusive to apple for a week or two, certainly Katy Perry's next album. I doubt Spotify will get many or any exclusives while they have a free subscription
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Let's put this in context, Apple paid lots and lots of money to Ms Spears so she would go with them first, it's nothing to do with Apple Music being better than anyone else. MONEY TALKS.
 
You'd think with all that money she could get herself a better looking album cover. Is it an exclusive because nobody else wanted it?
 
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