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Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

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Post by benhurmarcel »

music_throwaway wrote: post #132
wwweston wrote: post #34

I pulled the trigger on an Apple Music subscription this year because it pays artists better. Spotify still considers a penny per stream "entitled" according to an exec giving one of the most absolutely tone-deaf AND nonsensical justifications for their choices ("we solved piracy by more or less adopting piracy's business model and legitimizing it!") [0] Apple stepped up to that level. [1] Revenue streams from record…

I really respect your decision to choose your streaming service based on how they each pay out artists. I work for an independent label and the most recent analysis we did shows that in the US, Apple was paying out roughly just under $0.007 (7/10 of a penny) / stream, while Spotify was paying out around $0.004. These rates go down as you bring a more international user base, depending on where in the world the music…

Do you have separate numbers for Spotify for paying accounts vs free ones?

It looks like a stream by a free account makes less money, which draws the average down. However that ends up being a higher total than if that free stream didn’t exist. And also it would mean that those numbers aren’t useful for choosing between services for a paying customer.

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Post by dustyharddrive »

shaan7 wrote: post #41

I dread the day when iTunes stops letting you buy DRM-free music. I don't know anywhere else I can do that easily (and is the only Apple service I use).

I haven't used it myself yet but 7digital sells FLAC and MP3/M4A of many releases: https://us.7digital.com/

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Post by __david__ »

DisjointedHunt wrote: post #168
__david__ wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried this and my lock screen shows me 4 thumbnails that I know are my most played songs/playlists but the main app and play button are the video that I most recently watched (and paused) in firefox. I know when I listen to postcasts using Overcast (since I like their UI better than Apple's), it shows up in the lock screen. This is reliable for me. It also becomes the default thing to play if I hook up to my C…

A "Weird bug or edge case" is rarely the case with these upsells. There's a lot of marketing and research budget that goes into designing these flows and equally tonnes of data behind observing the behavior. That precisely is my point. The behavior on my end is strange as well where it happens at times i'm commuting and other times, when the phone is still, nothing. Where can i go and switch this off in settings for…

Oh come on. You're describing a behavior that makes no sense—of course it's a bug. The whole point of that widget on the lock screen is to show you the last thing you paused so that you can continue listening to it. It's not there to push random ads.

Re: Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

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Post by DisjointedHunt »

__david__ wrote: post #173
DisjointedHunt wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A "Weird bug or edge case" is rarely the case with these upsells. There's a lot of marketing and research budget that goes into designing these flows and equally tonnes of data behind observing the behavior. That precisely is my point. The behavior on my end is strange as well where it happens at times i'm commuting and other times, when the phone is still, nothing. Where can i go and switch this off in settings for…

Oh come on. You're describing a behavior that makes no sense—of course it's a bug. The whole point of that widget on the lock screen is to show you the last thing you paused so that you can continue listening to it. It's not there to push random ads.

That is not the official line. The whole point of that widget on the lock screen is to perform behavior that is not codified in OS settings or available directly to __ANY__ external developer outside of Apple.

When a "Bug" seems to oddly fit in favor of a native OS's paid feature uptake, call me skeptical when i don't think it is a "Mistake", i mean what are the odds that Apple Music launches, the team is under pressure to deliver subscriber numbers and suddenly this behavior shows up?

The whole approach to Software companies where ridiculous behavior like this are tolerated in recommendation engines in feed or in OS level features that are anti competitive by nature and dismissed as a "Transient bug" by people who should know better is not right.

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