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Frank Ocean Releases Visual Album 'Endless' Exclusively on Apple Music

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Just about two weeks after it was reported that R&B singer Frank Ocean's next album, "Boys Don't Cry," would be available exclusively on Apple music, the singer has released "Endless," a visual album exclusive to the service.

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An Apple representative told Pitchfork that the 45-minute visual album features new songs from the artist. The rep added that fans should "keep an eye out this weekend for more from Frank." It's unclear when Ocean's "Boys Don't Cry" is expected to launch.

"Endless" and "Boys Don't Cry" are just two of the high-profile exclusives Apple Music has secured in the past year. Other content includes Drake's "Views," Taylor Swift's "1989 World Tour LIVE" and Katy Perry's latest single "Rise."

"Endless" can be watched on Apple Music now. [Direct Link]

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I was looking forward to the follow up to Channel Orange. It's been so long that I don't give a damn anymore. Frank Ocean might be screwing himself by acting like his audience will wait forever. C'mon Frank Rose, release your Chinese Democracy already.
 
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vmachiel said:
Which was fine when you bought music. I can image a near future where you need multiple streaming services if you want to listen to everything.
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In the future Tidal will be gone (they are hurting financials already), so you'll only need Apple Music for exclusives.
 
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Zirel said:
In the future Tidal will be gone (they are hurting financials already), so you'll only need Apple Music for exclusives.
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Exactly. I can't see any musicians signing up to Spotify only, and not having their music - at least - on the iTunes Store. So Apple Music and iTunes to fill any gaps that might come up.

It's all irrelevant anyway unless Spotify can figure out how to become profitable.
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vmachiel said:
Still, people that use Google/Amazon/Spotify will be screwed.
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They'll switch.

There's 'Move to iOS' - I can see Apple adding a feature to Music that allows you to import from Spotify, assuming it becomes clear people are beginning to switch in droves. (Which obviously isn't the case at the moment.)
 
Zirel said:
Don't sign for the wrong music services that exploit artists, and you'll be fine.

Spotify and YouTube are the cancer of music industry. Even more so than piracy. You could say that "nobody forces artists to go there", but when they have the market in their hands, you have to.
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Oh FFS, Apple was gonna not pay artists during the trial period, only changed that when they got caught out.

Exclusives suck, if the industry wants to curb piracy, music should be released on all platforms (Physical, Online Purchase and Online Streaming) at the same time.
 
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thekeyring said:
I can see Apple adding a feature to Music that allows you to import from Spotify,
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They probably can't do that, and it would become a game of cat and mouse.
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oldmacs said:
Oh FFS, Apple was gonna not pay artists during the trial period, only changed that when they got caught out.

Exclusives suck, if the industry wants to curb piracy, music should be released on all platforms (Physical, Online Purchase and Online Streaming) at the same time.
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The trial period is a tiny little bit part of it.

Most people on Spotify don't pay, the ads don't pay even close to reasonable, there are cracks, there are contracts with carriers where you pay nothing basically, there's the tryout where people pay $0.99 for 3 months and can renew infinitely...

YouTube also pays even less for ad impressions...
 
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Zirel said:
The trial period is a tiny little bit part of it.

Most people on Spotify don't pay, the ads don't pay even close to reasonable, there are cracks, there are contracts with carriers where you pay nothing basically, there's the tryout where people pay $0.99 for 3 months and can renew infinitely...

YouTube also pays even less for ad impressions...
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The point is that Apple is not really much better than the others, as I said they tried to pay nothing for the trial period- they really don't care, they're only slightly less exploitive. At least Spotify does a good service keeping many who would be pirates at least paying something rather than nothing.
 
oldmacs said:
The point is that Apple is not really much better than the others, as I said they tried to pay nothing for the trial period- they really don't care, they're only slightly less exploitive. At least Spotify does a good service keeping many who would be pirates at least paying something rather than nothing.
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But Apple pays, Spotify is the pirate here, the amount they pay to artists while non-premium users listen is laughable.

Do you understand that artists only get 70% FROM WHATEVER the advertisers decide to pay? If an advertiser decides to pay $1, they get $0.70, if they de
 
I'm guessing he's also selling his music somewhere too?

Apple Music is only used by 15 million people. That's quite a small audience in the grand scheme of things.
 
Zirel said:
They probably can't do that, and it would become a game of cat and mouse.
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They can. Third parties already do it for you: http://movetoapple.com/ or https://freeyourmusic.com/

What do you mean by "it would become a game of cat and mouse"? If it ever did get to the point where Spotify was loosing popularity massively in favour of Apple Music, a tool from Apple to import Spotify playlists would make things easier for users. Spotify could set up one in retaliation but in this hypothetical future, not many people would notice.
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oldmacs said:
The point is that Apple is not really much better than the others, as I said they tried to pay nothing for the trial period- they really don't care, they're only slightly less exploitive.
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To quote Tim Minchin, "Oh no wait, that's absolute ********". Apple pay for users' free trials. As far as the artists are concerned, there is no free trial. If a song is streamed on Apple Music, they are paid for it.

This wasn't their intention at the beginning, but they u-turned on it so fast, it was hardly Big Evil Apple trying to rip off the music industry.
 
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