[Starstruck.]

Originally posted by Retro

It's good, yes! It's just that I see it as a slightly-lesser counterpart to I Wish You Would. IDK. I'm not saying it's bad at all, just not my tea.

IWYW is kind of weak, IKP is so much better.

Woo the 1-2-3 punch with IKP, Clean and Wonderland

[slobro]

Originally posted by iHype.

Spotify has technically actually made no money since it's launched. Everything they generate ends up being paid to artists. They're gonna have to cut the free service soon, especially with AM coming to snatch millions of it's users already.

I assume VEVO pays around the same as Spotify's free tier?

Then isn't RIAA grossly inflating streams in their certs? 100 streams = 1 sale according to RIAA

While in reality it's more like 600 free streams = 1 sale, when it comes to revenue for the label/artists

[BabyCantYouSee]

Originally posted by conatus

This Love is the worst song on 1989 and possibly the worst song of Taylor's entire career.

Take it back.

[Sinister]

Originally posted by youkneekorn

DeruLOW is done. She will struggle to get one hit song with her next era.

never forget

[santos]

the Cutmis thinking their fave is coming. Their faces when her single peaks at #10 again

[Retro]

Clean is so cathartic. So good.

Originally posted by iHype.

Spotify has technically actually made no money since it's launched. Everything they generate ends up being paid to artists. They're gonna have to cut the free service soon, especially with AM coming to snatch millions of it's users already.

Actually they can't cut free because most people would just migrate to Apple if they aren't eligible for the student discount.

But they also can't cut premium or reduce prices or they'll end up losing money and shutting down.

Spotify is kinda cornered right now.

[Golden]

Originally posted by Golden

When it's all said done, what do y'all think will be the biggest hit? CFTS or Good For You?

[conatus]

You Are In Love is kind of a more optimistic Begin Again.

[RoarRiteNow1]

Originally posted by Retro

By how generic she was.

Like sis, TD is my #3 or #2 album this decade (depends on how I feel about Lana at any given time), I have no shame in saying that, but the fact that its "influence" on him was through how it's repetitive with "sing-along" lyrics is just sad. If it were INFLUENTIAL, people would be finding other things to be influenced by and praising other aspects. The only influence it has had was helping to define the Max/Luke sound dominating radio - we can talk about that. We can acknowledge the dozens of radio fodder songs that tried to follow in its tracks after it had six #1 hits. But Coldplay and Taylor are just not examples of that.

Why does that matter? He was still listening to her pop classics to be influenced like that. Her pop classics were the template for his pop music!

[slobro]

Spotify could add more commercials/ads for their free tier I guess

[YR.]

I don't like it
I LOVE IT.


I'm mad at Sinister always winning.

[youkneekorn]

The UMass girls never win!

Why did Kworb say Cheyenne is flopping?

[Skywalker]

One second I'm a Koons
Then suddenly the Koons is you

[YR.]

Originally posted by conatus

You Are In Love is kind of a more optimistic Begin Again.

But it's about Lena Dunham so that ruins it

[Sinister]

Originally posted by conatus

You Are In Love is kind of a more optimistic Begin Again.

i was just listening to that song
definitely in the top 3 on the entire album

[iHype.]

Originally posted by slobro

I assume VEVO pays around the same as Spotify's free tier?

Then isn't RIAA grossly inflating SEA in their certs?

100 streams = 1 sale according to RIAA, but in reality it's more like 600 free streams = 1 sale, when it comes to revenue for the label/artists

Nobody has a clear grasp of how much VEVO pays. But it isn't that much I don't think. It's sorta like radio, where the point of it is a promotional tool to get people to buy the work.

RIAA's Streaming inclusion is an absolute mess. First of all, they certified Baby 8x Platinum off streams alone which would mean it was streamed 800 million times. That's literally impossible that it was streamed 800M times in US, which means they went off of it's WW VEVO Streams.

Why on Earth would Worldwide streams count for a US certification? On top of that, they've updated a very few singles with Streaming data, thousands of songs should be re-updated if they're gonna do this new rule, not specific singles by top artists their label pays for.

Streaming certifications should be seperate from Sales certifications. Especially since the rate of pay, and the amount of streams songs receive is changing as times go by, so they're gonna end up re-adjusting a lot. But RIAA is useless now, and is completely kept alive at this point by label's paying them money to fake certifications. The fact they're still ONLY certifying off of album shipments and refuse to use Soundscan sales, when albums are about to go extinct in physical format.

[conatus]

Originally posted by YR.

But it's about Lena Dunham so that ruins it

...

I can't tell if you're joking.

Originally posted by Sinister

i was just listening to that song
definitely in the top 3 on the entire album

To be honest.

The trinity is quite obviously AYHTDWS, Clean, and You Are In Love. Don't know why people bother claiming otherwise.

[Retro]

Originally posted by slobro

I assume VEVO pays around the same as Spotify's free tier?

Then isn't RIAA grossly inflating streams in their certs? 100 streams = 1 sale according to RIAA

While in reality it's more like 600 free streams = 1 sale, when it comes to revenue for the label/artists

Financially, a $1.29 song generates $0.903 for a label. Streaming revenues vary slightly, but Spotify for example generates $0.0012 for a freemium stream and $.0059 for a premium stream. Since about 75% of users are freemium, we can say that an average stream nets $0.002375, which means that a song purchase is worth 380 streams, at least on Spotify. It's worth 753 freemium streams, or 153 premium streams. For VEVO it's almost the same: "artists stand to earn anywhere from $0.00222 to $0.0025 per stream." (x)

[YR.]

Originally posted by youkneekorn

The UMass girls never win!

Why did Kworb say Cheyenne is flopping?

Because it is. Not even top 100 in the US

[Jennifer]

I'm living for Apple Music. Having everything in one place is just so easy and perfect.