I rarely ever purchased music. And yet, thanks to Spotify I've been paying ~$10/mo for the last 4 years. For all the hate it gets, its turned people who rarely ever paid for music into paying for it every month.
Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales
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#12Personally, I have not bought music since streaming services started covering 90% of the music I listen to.
That's so bizarre to me. I'm pretty much with Penny Arcade on this: "it's basically infinity dollars." [1] I mean, the idea of "owning" a digital file is a bit nebulous, but streaming offers nothing to me.
Though I'm completely the opposite when it comes to movies, where I'm perfectly happy with streaming. So who knows.
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#13Note this article is from October 2014.
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#14I'm curious what the net amount of money going to musicians are, as opposed to the amount of money going to record labels. That's much more important to me, because I don't care if the music labels starve, but if the musicians go broke, then there is no more content. And in this age, it seems strange that there isn't a good way for a musician to completely bypass labels altogether and just release music on their own,…
The artists are the ones that let the labels make all the sales/straming money. Take 10 decent artists, the label says "ok we like all of you, whoever will sign for the lowest % of music sales/streaming will get signed and promoted and has a good chance to get famous and make that much more from concerts, etc.". Of course they end up making all the sales/streaming money. That's not evil that's just how it works.
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#15I rarely ever purchased music. And yet, thanks to Spotify I've been paying ~$10/mo for the last 4 years. For all the hate it gets, its turned people who rarely ever paid for music into paying for it every month.
I think the only people that are really angry about Spotify are the artists. It seems like the way their payments are calculated, they get the short end of the stick.
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#16I go to shows, buy vinyl when I can (albeit rarely), and download and stream for everything else. This is what most music junkies do these days, I guess.
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#17Try this if it asks you to sign in: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
I still get asked to sign in when I view that link, but that's besides the point: I wish paywall'd articles weren't accepted here.
Maybe there is a place for paywalls in this world, I just don't think we should be posting links to them here.
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#18I rarely ever purchased music. And yet, thanks to Spotify I've been paying ~$10/mo for the last 4 years. For all the hate it gets, its turned people who rarely ever paid for music into paying for it every month.
I think the only people that are really angry about Spotify are the artists. It seems like the way their payments are calculated, they get the short end of the stick.
Not that this excuses Spotify, but artists got the short end of the stick in the traditional system too.
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#19Congratulations to the music publishing industry. After years of claiming that we didn't actually own the songs we purchased, we finally decided not to purchase songs anymore.
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#20I'm curious what the net amount of money going to musicians are, as opposed to the amount of money going to record labels. That's much more important to me, because I don't care if the music labels starve, but if the musicians go broke, then there is no more content. And in this age, it seems strange that there isn't a good way for a musician to completely bypass labels altogether and just release music on their own,…
Musicians can commercially self-publish on cdbaby, bandcamp and probably quite a few others. Most choose to do it via a label due to knowhow and marketing increasing reach to an extent which outweighs the cut taken.