Apple Music claims they want to fix the royality rates to 9.1. cents per 100 plays

[mr. smoke weed]

wait a minute 9.1 cents on a hundred plays = 910 dollars on a million plays?????

What kind of robbery is this?

The legal, infastructured kind.

Rape N U records 2016

 

[blackzeus]

Apple and Spotify are retail outlets though

They aren't doing anything different than any other retail outlet. So if ppl are gonna be mad at them then be mad at all of them. Don't just pick and choose because you personally have something against either one of them.

If I sell a song on iTunes they take 30% if I sell it at Walmart they gonna take their 30%(it's actually more) but you get the idea.

The problem is that most musicians(not just rappers. See a song sell for .99 and think that they should get it all.

My nikka, it's 9.1 cents per 100 plays. It's chump change. Artists would be better off investing in their own streaming app. That's the issue with a beast of a company like Apple. Since everything is proprietary, you have to bow down to their whims

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[hex]

it was like that in 1996 and 1986 and 1966,etc.

Not really.

Rappers going plat in the late 80's, early 90's had to do a hell of a lot more leg work, and had virtually no part of "the machine" behind them....while also (for artists like Cube, Ice-T, 2 Live Crew) having to deal with people trying to ban their music. MTV refused to play rap music initially, and you're telling me it's all the same? C'mon man. The sole reason rap crossed over into the mainstream is people couldn't ignore it any more. They tried, though.

Fred.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I dont care as long as im paying the same 9.99 every month

Exactly.

Muhfukkas are outraged but also are not spending 20-40 bucks a month buying all the albums and mixtapes they download. It's absurd.

 

[LinusCaldwell]

I was letting yall know way before Joe

http://www.thecoli.com/posts/10736178/

When are you gon hop on the podcast b?

 

[Mac Casper]

That's similar to what an artist gets paid for radio play

I bet Jimmy Iovine is helping those nerds shark his former music industry cohorts

 

[mr. smoke weed]

When are you gon hop on the podcast b?

When is #RingGang invited?

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

When are you gon hop on the podcast b?

I can call in


Im down.....

 

[Prodigital]

The problem i have with this, is that streams are being counted as sales but aren't paying out the same amount of sales.

Example, hotline bling has streamed like a 1 billion fukking times, are we gonna say that it's sold a billion? RIAA doesnt even have a cert for that, and i know that 1/7th of the planet has not really given a single fukk about that song.

I dont think this value is completely bad, it pays off for the artist in the long run. Especially considering that music that goes into these online services exist in an immortal state. I'll always be able to access them, even after the artist death and no physical copies exist, i assume thats the biggest win fall, posthumous releases for independent artist will go straight to apples and big records pockets.

This is ultimately another derivative of ringtone music. Artist will be more enticed to make something that gets a listen even if its garbage. There needs to be an offset in this system for music discovery and biased exposure. Like apple music shooting a commercial with drake is the equivalent of profiteering. As their subscribers have a flat rate, will have more reason to check out the track, and drake see's a huge boost in his pockets. This will stunt indie / underground / independent music even more than ever.

 

[Mac Casper]

Yes the labels are raking the artists over the coal, as are apple and spotify. Just making a real life observation. You have a better chance succeeding going to community college than trying to entertain.

Have no concept of what it means to have a calling in life brehs

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Have no concept of what it means to have a calling in life brehs

I understand all of that. Why would you think I don't from the posts I've made?

It's also possible to have a calling in life, and create a backup plan. IE if you're into making music, learn how to mix. If you want to be a MC study how to work a drum machine etc. Or shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit go to community college in your free time.

Not trying to be a Debbie downer, just a realist.

 

[LinusCaldwell]

I can call in


Im down.....

Check your pm breh

 

[LinusCaldwell]

When is #RingGang invited?

Everyone is on different time schedules breh I can't keep trying to chase everyone down. It's easier to get one-two people than 3-5+ if y'all can get an agreement on a schedule let's run it

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

for the last time, artists are not getting fukked by streaming. this is an additional form of revenue...the alternative - which was huge in the 00's is bootlegging. at least now these cats get some revenue from the contingent that otherwise wasn't/isn't buying their album. what that rate should be is debatable, but stop whining about streaming pay as a whole