Nah, you're right. I don't think anyone has a problem with how the music is being digested. New formats are a good thing. But the industry had to change how they issued plaques because people stopped buying records. So instead of reaping the benefits and the monetary pay of actually selling records, artists have been forced to rely on streaming as their way to gauge their music's activity. Nobody has a problem with streaming, we all use those services. But we all know these plaques mean a lot less than they used to. The artists that are actually selling 500,000 are in an entirely different league than those just streaming those numbers. Formats have changed, but where you are in your career based on what you actually sell, hasn't at all. Trust me.
Think about this, an artist makes around $0.005 per play on streaming services. So if their joint gets played 500,000 times, they're not even pocketing 3 grand. But they're giving them plaques.
he'd probably be a little bigger though
I can tell off this snippet Don is gonna crush that shyt.
