I'm sure they would/could if a customer called them to sign up.Last I checked, Apple is not offering an option to skip the trial?
I'm sure they would/could if a customer called them to sign up.Last I checked, Apple is not offering an option to skip the trial?
Well these are Apple related forums, you know, most of the people are gonna support Apple unconditionally, which is fine, that it is completely normal.
Thanks for pointing this out - I forgot that Spotify provides revenue based on plays.Everyone who does.. or stops using it.
Every play that AM gets between July and October that would have previously gone to any other service is money the artist is not getting..
Streaming is temporary, purchasing to own is forever (unless you buy a CD and record labels in your country are trying to re-outlaw making private copies for backup, but that's another story).In those 3 months she would make 0 while her music catalog would be getting streamed millions of times. It'd actually make her lose even more money, if potential buyers of her album chose to stream it for free instead of buying it.
I can't think of any artist in their right mind embracing the 3 month trial, it'd be as smart of them as tweeting links to torrents of their music. Although they shouldn't really blame Apple, but the labels that agreed on it instead.
Really? Hmm. I don't know what posts you've been reading. Every person I've called out (except for you) about them paying upfront rather than the free subscription is ignoring my replies because deep down they just want to show hatred towards Apple rather than fulfilling the big picture. If they want these artists paid so badly then ditch the freemiums and trials and pay.
Carry Underwood hasn't been relevant in ages. Why? She never evolved her music. She's singing the same thing the same way over and over again. No one is here for it. Like Apple an artist can't keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect people to be interested. Artists need to evolve their craft. If thats selling out to other genre's, so be it. Taylor Swift doesn't have to do what constitutes country music these days because people are here for her more pop sounding music as well. Taylor was also kind of a country pop hybrid.
When are her 15 minutes up? Her music isn't good enough to be able to throw that much weight around. The next teenie bopper will roll around and she'll end up a 'what ever happened to...' story in a few years.
Think about it this way,
You make bread and someone buys one loaf off you a day. it costs you 50p to make and sell it for £1
Then a supermarket says that they want a free three month trial of bread to who ever wants bread
For those days you lose £90 Just on one customer
If there are a hundred loafs that's £9,000!
Discussing Apple ≠ blindly supporting every move without thinking of the repercussions. Giving unconditional support to a company shouldn't be normal, it just makes you a tool to a brand.
I agree about letting Eddy go. He's clearly the weak link in Apple's software, hardware and services strategy. He was always known as a "maintenance guy" for a reason.
I'm also not sure you know that the writers, producers nor artists will be paying for bandwidth, marketing or engineering and operations for 3 months.Taylor Swift said:I’m not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months.
Apple Music could be the first streaming service that "gets it right" in her eyes in regards to artist compensation.
I'm sure they would/could if a customer called them to sign up.
I've a 6+ 128GBs I don't care about apple music or spotify. I just torrent everything.
It sounds like "1989" is being distributed like it's 1989.
Well at least she is asking Apple to pay, rather than asking them to cancel the three month free trial . That trial is a great idea.
That's more than can be said about her stance on Spotify, which, you know, actually *paid* her.
Basically Apple should just stump up the cost.
Pretty valid point. I was under the assumption Apple was just eating up the costs for 3 months. We'll see if this picks up more traction and changes anything.
Urgh, the amount of apologists in this thread makes my skin crawl.
There's no way to defend Apple not paying artists for using their content to promote Apple's own service. It's not about 'cancelling the trial', or "Greedy artists' etc. it's about Apple stumping the bill the content creators deserve.
Stop being such tools and realise Apple's pulling a major douche move.
Apple is only doing what the music labels let them do. If the music labels didn't want Apple to do the free 3 month trial it wouldn't happen.
Apple may be greedy but so is the music industry.
Thanks, good to know. I'm in no rush since I have iTunes Match and will hold off until they get more indie labels and artists.It's 3 months free from when the user signs up. Doesn't matter when they sign up.
How so? Please explain?