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Taylor Swift's Upcoming Album Won't Be Immediately Available on Apple Music and Other Streaming Services

I can't understand why people care if they have to wait a week, or even a month, more to listen to a new song or watch a new movie. Especially when the demand is artificially created. Release dates are arbitrarily set by the distributors/labels/studios based on what they believe will maximize their profits (which I don't necessarily begrudge them).

If you want to listen to or watch something new, and it isn't available *yet* through the services or means you normally use, just pretend it hasn't been released at all yet. After all, there's literally millions of other things to listen to and watch in the mean time. :rolleyes:

Having to have it NOW is the mentality that gives these shysters the power in the first place. Dear mindless pop-culture masses, stop giving them that power by exercising a modicum of patience.
 
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KazKam said:
I can't understand why people care if they have to wait a week, or even a month, more to listen to a new song or watch a new movie. Especially when the demand is artificially created. Release dates are arbitrarily set by the distributors/labels/studios based on what they believe will maximize their profits (which I don't necessarily begrudge them).

If you want to listen to or watch something new, and it isn't available *yet* through the services or means you normally use, just pretend it hasn't been released at all yet. After all, there's literally millions of other things to listen to and watch in the mean time. :rolleyes:

Having to have it NOW is the mentality that gives these shysters the power in the first place. Dear mindless pop-culture masses, stop giving them that power by exercising a modicum of patience.
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That could literally apply to any category... music, movie, people camping out overnight for a phone, putting down a $1000 for a car they won't see for a year from now, etc. It has always been this way, it will always be this way. You're asking people to not be people.
 
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ErikGrim said:
I’m surprised this isn’t standard procedure for all album launches. Sales first, streaming later. Much like theatrical movie releases vs home video vs streaming.
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I think it could bite the record companies and artists if they delayed streaming, because it ain't hard for one purchased CD to be duplicated, or ripped and distributed and there goes all sorts of streaming revenue that excited fans might have paid.

I've never been a fan of Taylor Swift's mindset. I wish she'd just stuck with Country music. All this money is getting to her...
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KazKam said:
I can't understand why people care if they have to wait a week, or even a month, more to listen to a new song or watch a new movie. Especially when the demand is artificially created. Release dates are arbitrarily set by the distributors/labels/studios based on what they believe will maximize their profits (which I don't necessarily begrudge them).

If you want to listen to or watch something new, and it isn't available *yet* through the services or means you normally use, just pretend it hasn't been released at all yet. After all, there's literally millions of other things to listen to and watch in the mean time. :rolleyes:

Having to have it NOW is the mentality that gives these shysters the power in the first place. Dear mindless pop-culture masses, stop giving them that power by exercising a modicum of patience.
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You obviously have never had teenagers or you would have not written this.
 
dmylrea said:
I think it could bite the record companies and artists if they delayed streaming, because it ain't hard for one purchased CD to be duplicated, or ripped and distributed and there goes all sorts of streaming revenue that excited fans might have paid.

I've never been a fan of Taylor Swift's mindset. I wish she'd just stuck with Country music. All this money is getting to her...
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What’s a CD?
 
All the plastic and packaging that goes into physical albums... I’m not sure they should be made available anymore, to be honest. Seems redundant and unnecessary to me these days - CDs, specifically, since you can get lossless digital albums online.
 
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If I was an artist I'd put it on a streaming service. Get it in everyone's hands and make your money through radio because the song took off faster than just digital album sales
 
Wow this website sure is full of bitter little bitches.
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jonnysods said:
If I was an artist I'd put it on a streaming service. Get it in everyone's hands and make your money through radio because the song took off faster than just digital album sales
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You won’t make nearly the amount by selling cd’s. Good thing your not an “artist”
 
Which one of her rivals has an album release coming up? I'm sure she'll "finally" come to an agreement right when their album drops. Hahaha
 
I would rather see "The Exterminating Angel" at the Met.... dinner with gluttony...
 

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ErikGrim said:
I’m surprised this isn’t standard procedure for all album launches. Sales first, streaming later. Much like theatrical movie releases vs home video vs streaming.
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Indeed. The music industry made a huge mistake when they allowed the streaming services to stream individual songs on-demand/random-access for minuscule payouts. Streaming has long been waiting in the wings to replace radio, but the old tradeoff was, listen to a station/DJ and hope they play the song you want to hear (and get exposed to other songs along the way) or pay money to buy it and listen whenever you want. The microscopic payments would have worked for that, simply with streaming replacing airwaves as a delivery mechanism. But the music labels let the streaming services offer up unlimited-use random-access jukeboxes of all the music for one low price, and suddenly instead of radio play as an inducement to buy, we got streaming as an alternative to buying. And once you provide something so favorable to people like that they soon come to insist on it as a right, so it's going to be very hard to turn that boat around.

The music industry should look for ways to pull back a little, like holding albums as for-sale-only for a while before putting them up on streaming services. Imagine if all the Hollywood blockbusters were available on Netflix the same day they released in the theaters - people would like it, sure (and would soon insist that it had to be that way), but movie ticket sales would tank (which, in the long run, would lead to fewer big budget movies getting made).
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poematik13 said:
Who cares, her music is trash
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Always with the hate, every time any article mentions any specific musician, people are in such a hurry to denigrate said artist's music. I don't care a flying leap what your opinions on music are. Likely most of the others here also don't care about your musical tastes either.

The issue at hand is about the ins and outs of the music streaming business.
Apple is in the music streaming business.
This site covers news about Apple.
You are reading this site of your own volition.
If you don't have anything to contribute about the business of music streaming, then shut up maybe?
Again, to be clear, we don't care whether or not you like her music.
 
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KazKam said:
I can't understand why people care if they have to wait a week, or even a month, more to listen to a new song or watch a new movie. Especially when the demand is artificially created. Release dates are arbitrarily set by the distributors/labels/studios based on what they believe will maximize their profits (which I don't necessarily begrudge them).

If you want to listen to or watch something new, and it isn't available *yet* through the services or means you normally use, just pretend it hasn't been released at all yet. After all, there's literally millions of other things to listen to and watch in the mean time. :rolleyes:

Having to have it NOW is the mentality that gives these shysters the power in the first place. Dear mindless pop-culture masses, stop giving them that power by exercising a modicum of patience.
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Kinda like lining up for days to get a phone?
 
It's ok guys, we know she still runs Apple. We know that Tim isn't leading, and calls her on every important decision.
 
ErikGrim said:
I’m surprised this isn’t standard procedure for all album launches. Sales first, streaming later. Much like theatrical movie releases vs home video vs streaming.
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This only makes sense for big artists (see Adele, Taylor Swift, etc.) whose albums will be listened to anyway and who have a huge fanbase. Many smaller artists would go unnoticed if they didn't offer their music on streaming services.

The model of music streaming doesn't really help small artists to sell more records (don't have any data to back that up, but I suspect few people listen to songs on streaming services and then decide to buy the whole album -- correct me if I'm wrong) but increases their chances of becoming more popular.
 
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