Drake's New Album 'Views' Sells One Million Copies in Five Days Under Apple Exclusivity

[sweet_man]

Drake sets up 1 million Apple IDs.

 

[AgentAnonymous]

P.S., there is no pay gap between men and women today. Its a debunked myth that when you take into account field, experience, education, hours worked, etc the "gap" disappears.

Yes there is. The pay gap in the tech industry even for evenly qualified women is 8-20%.

It exists in science too: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/

Unconscious bias is a pretty big deal. All it takes is seeing a female or "ethnic sounding" name on an otherwise perfectly identical resume to change how you perceive it. This has been replicated many times, and even exists in music.

Females in Symphony Orchestras jumped up by 30% after they implemented blind auditions as standard policy. Turns out women tend to do better and be percieved as moee competent when people don't know they're women.

 

[Dr.Chroma]

Drake is everywhere now. New album, affiliate of the Toronto Raptors Organization, Actor & producer. Not a fan of his music, but he is making strides.

 

[RadioGaGa1984]

^^ Every generation says this about the generation before.

Yes but now its true.

 

[69Mustang]

Yes but now its true.

As true as it was back then, as true as it will be for future generations. Same tire argument, ad nauseam

 

[TinHead88]

You know, there is a lot of good music out there made today that aren't made by the big name artists like drake.



Exactly. If you are only basing modern music based off hearing Sorry by Justin Bieber on the radio, then you are ignoring all the great modern artist that are not well as known. There are great albums released all the time iTunes, but the older generation isn't exploring the new music section of iTunes to see all the great modern music that has come out, but don't hit top charts on KIIS FM.

Yes, good music is still being made, but there has definitely been a trend in the last 2 decades or so towards manufactured music. In the old(er) days bands and individual artists perhaps compromised their artistic integrity to some degree by striving for a hit, but that at least left some variety in the outcomes. These days we have a whole layer of popular music that is manufactured to sell. There are these "mega" producers many mainstream artists go to in order to increase their chance of topping the charts. It seems to me that a lot of the music of late in the mainstream has come about more through a process of business than artistic expression.

 

[Three141]

Congratulation to Drake it shows Kanye and Beyoncé went the wrong way with their exclusives

 

[vooke]

Would he have made such or more sales other than going through ?

 

[rkRusty]

I teach in a high school and you can not believe the number of kids who have tee-shirts of bands from the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Lots of Beatles and Pink Floyd t-***** on any given day.

Wearing a t-shirt with a logo on doesn't mean they have a clue who they are or their music.

Tell a girl under 20 you listen to The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin and 9 times out of 10 she replies "Oh cool, that's what my Dad listens to." Too many unsuccessful dates have taught me that one.

 

[MH01]

This album had 1M sales. At $13.99/copy, that means the company got paid $9.8M, after Apple's cut. And they spent "millions" cracking down on piracy.

So the main reason music costs so much is because they want to invest so much money on keeping people from getting it for free.

If nobody pirated, how much less would they be able to charge?

Also, I find it hard to imagine anybody would bother pirating if they would just offer the album on Spotify which has a free tier.

Albums used to cost a LOT more before piracy, via torrenting etc. One could argue that piracy led to prices dropping to compete.

The current pricing has nothing to do with piracy, it's greed. If you believe that prices would go down if people could not get it for free, you are mistaken. They would go up, as you would have no option and the label would make up BS excuses why it's costs so much.