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Originally posted by iHype.
Streaming paying the industry billions but artists not getting money means the label is not paying artists their share. You can't be mad at streaming for something that has to do with a greedy label. Spotify can't control how the money is divided, and how artists contracts are set up.
Physical + Digital sales = 51% of revenue
Streaming = 47% of revenue
Streaming will be winning by the end of 2016 since it continues to increase and sales continue to decrease. Streaming measures artists popularity much better than sales. You buy an album one time, and it counts once – it also doesn't track whether you like the album, just that you bought it. Streaming shows how millions are consuming music day by day and week by week. If people continue listening to your album every single week after week they clearly like it, versus buying an album once and not having any indication as to whether the buyer liked the album or even played it. |
i agree with this, altho i must add that alot of streaming isn't actually on the demand in the sense that a listener actively chooses the song, but that they are feautured on popular playlists used on parties, cafees, gym etc...
and alot of the more easy-listening kind of songs benefit from this also, while many may choose to buy albums with not-so easy listening songs and not play them as often but still like them more.
also i don't think that many buy albums they don't know they'll like, it's not like the 80's when u literally had no idea how the album, save a radio single from it, sounded.
still, this is most democratic and popularity-mirroring way to view the music biz and i'm glad streaming wins. i just want it to develop more, focus more on the value of having a premium product for example. for me it's a no-brainer to use spotify premium, not freemium, since 2011 already. but it must be for others WW aswell.
