Yo, CarlJ, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but this story is about how Apple Music is getting more use not necessarily a lot. Estimates put the number of songs streamed per week at between 4 and 8 billion. So while Cardi B's 100 million on one platform is a lot for one artist it is disingenuous to say that 1 to 2% of the market means Apple Music is getting a lot of use. More than before, sure, but that does not mean it is a lot.
Gee, thanks for the snark. BTW, I
strongly dislike Kanye mostly because of that event - he showed himself to be a self-absorbed jackass, while being unbelievably rude to someone who had done him no wrong, in front of an audience of millions. It's not just that he did it, it's that he somehow thought at the time that it was a reasonable thing to do in the first place. Nobody put a gun to his head and made him get up out of his seat, and climb up on stage, and grab the microphone, and interrupt the event, and suggest that someone else deserved the award more. That's all on him. 100% jackass.
Now to your point: I didn't say
Apple Music is getting a huge percentage of the streaming market, or any such thing. I said they're getting "a lot" of use. 100 million streams (how many streams did the streaming service
that you run send out to paying customers last week?). Yes, it's just a drop in the bucket in the big picture. It's still a lot of streams. 100 million of
anything is a lot (if you don't believe me, just try
counting to 100 million, out loud). But this isn't "StreamingRumors", it's "MacRumors", dealing with things related to Apple. The point wasn't, "here comes Apple they're totally taking over the market" - if that were the case, it might be newsworthy on StreamingRumors. But much less world-changing things, like
Apple streaming an album 100 million times, are reasonably newsworthy here on
MacRumors.
The story was about Apple's
relative levels of success in the streaming market. Yet every time this kind of story about Apple Music comes up, there's a long line of forum members who are eager to let us know that they
don't like that kind of music (whatever
that kind may be this week). My point was, WTF does that matter and why are they telling us? (I'm guessing the second answer is along the lines of, their musical tastes were carved in stone in high school, and they're proud that they aren't changing and/or are looking for reassurance that "their" music is still the best). That is absolutely not relevant to the story at hand - which is always some data point about how well (or not) Apple is doing with Apple Music.
FWIW, I hadn't heard of Cardi B before. Because of this article, I'll probably go listen to some of her songs to see if I like them. That's not a bad thing. And I'm pleased that Apple is having
some success with streaming music.