It has nothing to do with this, streaming was predominantly a way to combat rising piracy. The internet killed the physical era

Probably. Then it just gets put back on spotify and things go on as usual.

Streaming is the 2nd greatest thing to happen to the music consumer ever after the internet
If it didn't exists artists would be making absolute 0 because we'd all be pirating .
Im not sure why people dont wana admit this

Nigga artist are already making absolute zero lmao

Well yah the whole thing is set up to pay the top artists. I can not listen to any Taylor swift at all but because she's x percentage of total streams on Spotify she gets that x percentage of my monthly subscription

Y’all niggas be sounding like crackheads with this s*** I swear

streaming was the best thing to come for the consumer, while being one of the worst things for the artists

streaming is a negative on the consumer now though, look at netflix

Jimmy Iovine presenting himself as trying to help artists is hilarious.

They want the streaming services to give them the data (for free) so labels can sell it to 3rd parties as another revenue stream. Say what you want but Apple isn't giving my data to everyone so I get influx of spam and targeted advertising.

Streaming has problems and the big playlists represents another form of the issues with radio payopla, but streaming is a significantly better propositon for artists, particulalry independent and smaller artists then the solely physical media + radio era ever was.

That system was limited by distrubution and logistics for the phycial media, totally controlled and gamed by the labels with stores, and the indirect payola (advertising) + patronage system of radio. This combined them having total pricing control meant labels totally controlled who made it and who didnt.

Streaming being tied to easy access consumption better reflects actual demand and popularity. It's shifted power to artists who can generate consumption without signing to a label and subsequently get significantly better deals from labels then they could have otherwise. Look at EsDeeKid insane blowup for example.

yeah there is bots, and personally i still buy/rip music because i dont want to "rent" it but this is a much better era for music discovery and the artists

i like when ppl tout physical music players when like i guarantee 90% of them pirate their music or buy second hand CD's so the artist isnt making s***

kinda defeats the purpose of sticking it to streaming while ur money still isnt goin to the artist's pocket. unless u straight up buying from itunes / their merch site / a store that isnt second hand

Streaming is definitely not all bad and in some ways it works in favor for newer artists because there is a low barrier for the consumer to listen to an album. I find new artists almost every week. If I had to pay 15 dollars for every album, I would have never listened to newer artists like Mink or stopped listening to Drake after Scorpion

If it's a negative for the creative it's a negative for the consumer. Like every month there's discussion on this website about how there is no next gen Big 3. There's absolutely the talent but streaming is just not set up to benefit any of the ground floor guys the way the blog era was

Yah I love that when J Cole drops this week I can just click play to see if I like it before spending any money on it, I like that when I'm in the mood for Jay Z I just type his name on Apple Music and I get any album I want from him, but there's a lot of negatives that come with these benefits

I kinda feel like the entire entertainment industry is suffering from the 2020 covid bubble right now too tbh

The way most major music-streaming subscription services actually pay is through a simpler mathematical scheme that works like this: The service puts all the money from all the people for a whole month into one big pool, and then splits that pool up according to the total streaming that happened that month. This scheme is called ==pro rata==, from the Latin 'pro' meaning 'professional', and 'rata' meaning 'way to avoid having to print 400 million individual billing statements'. Your money goes into the big pool, and your plays go into the big total

The average streaming subscriber plays very roughly 1000 songs per month. If you played J.Fla 1000 times this month, that would be 1000 100-billionths of the streams, which is 100-millionth, and thus she would get 100-millionth of $700 million, which would be $7.

he said this 8 years ago lmfao

when i lost my phone i bought a SnowSky/FiiO Echo mini and I already have a decent collection of music I've downloaded over the years + from cds. i busted out my koss porta pros too..

idk that s*** was annoying i'd be in the car wishing i could play something else

you cant streaming only is a thing cause bootlegging. theres no way to prevent that.

major labels should let their artists put their work on bandcamp. problem almost solved.

yea it makes no sense for consumers to be against streaming

25 March 2018 - Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar - and need to diversify to survive.
"The streaming services are all charging $9.99 and everyone has the same music," he told the BBC. "And it's really nice. You get whatever song you want, you get your playlists - but there's got to be more interaction between the artist and the audience. "Sooner or later, something's got to give

I guess the something is finally giving

woukd you rather pay for each show/movie? that would be more expensive for most people.

universal is the only label that still has shares in spotify

do you think people did that before streaming?

Also yes id like for movie theatres to be the premiere format for movies