Digital Sales Vs. Physical Sales and young vs older artists fanbase..

[Larry]

Nikkas out here bragging about renting music and paying on 4 different apps...
Be out here streaming albums with songs missing, shytty remasters and edited out

you can’t afford 5 dollars a month?



yall still got cable tv huh lol


And landlines

 

[Deltron]

Be out here streaming albums with songs missing, shytty remasters and edited out

biggest reasons why streaming will never replace having my own physicals and/or ripped collection

 

[hex]

Pay to rent music, brehs.

If I can't readily buy your music I'm stealing all your shyt. It is what it is.

I don't fukk with streaming just off the situation with De La and BIG. Samples got all fukked up and/or whole discographies aren't even on those services.

Never mind how fugazi the numbers are. That's a whole other can of worms.

Fred.

 

[Wacky D]

Okay so you're like 5 years older than me but mentally you are closer to 50.

thanks.

thats like the utmost compliment.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

you can’t afford 5 dollars a month?



yall still got cable tv huh lol


And landlines

I always find this comment funny, cause there are people paying for 8 different apps and don’t realize they’re basically paying a cable bill

 

[spliz]

I always find this comment funny, cause there people paying for 8 different apps and don’t realize they’re basically paying a cable bill

nikkas mentality is all fukked up bruh. Lol. All in the name of tryna appear “young”. Muthafukkas be late to the game wit mad shyt. Hustling backwards yet tryna act like somethin wrong wit us. Lol.

 

[Deltron]

I always find this comment funny, cause there people paying for 8 different apps and don’t realize they’re basically paying a cable bill

think the way they se it, is it's *only* 5, 9, 10, etc. bucks a month...but that shyt adds up and is only gonna continue to increase, especially as studios get greedier and launch their own stupid platforms.

 

[mobbinfms]

I been thinking about this for a while. I think the sales numbers some of these legends have isn’t indicative of what their actual sales potential is. For instance. U can clearly see this when u look at some of these cats actual sales vs streaming. Someone like Lil Baby will sell 150-200k and the actual sales will be like 9k. Someone like Nas can sell 60-70k and actual sales will be like 30-40k. I think the biggest issue is someone like a Nas’ fanbase ain’t really streaming music all day. Day and night. Their lives don’t even enable them to do shyt like that and that’s not how their used to consuming music. They would rather cop the album. And bump it when they can bump it. The problem is the industry is making it WAY harder to actually purchase music. U can barely find music in stores anymore. Meanwhile a Lil Baby fan will literally listen to the same shyt all day all night and stream it from their phone all day all night. Driving them streaming numbers up. I believe if there was more music available to actually purchase. The older legendary artists would sell more records out the gate. Not saying it would be the difference between going gold or plat or whatever. But I think the numbers would be far better than they have been. I think Jay Z is gonna run into that same issue this time around if he drops something.

I think the bigger issue, and maybe this was said at some point in the thread, is that for older artists, they had fans who would cop their album no matter what and maybe listen to it 10-20 times before it’s on to the next one. As more older fans convert to streaming, those older artists are losing those guaranteed physical/digital sales in exchange for a fan streaming the album 10-20 times which is a fraction of a “sale”.

 

[spliz]

Pay to rent music, brehs.

If I can't readily buy your music I'm stealing all your shyt. It is what it is.

I don't fukk with streaming just off the situation with De La and BIG. Samples got all fukked up and/or whole discographies aren't even on those services.

Never mind how fugazi the numbers are. That's a whole other can of worms.

Fred.

All facts bro.

I think the bigger issue, and maybe this was said at some point in the thread, is that for older artists, they had fans who would cop their album no matter what and maybe listen to it 10-20 times before it’s on to the next one. As more older fans convert to streaming, those older artists are losing those guaranteed physical/digital sales in exchange for a fan streaming the album 10-20 times which is a fraction of a “sale”.

Yup this is what I been saying all thru this thread. Older people simply don’t listen to music as much. So if they are streaming. The music sales don’t run up because it’s not enough listens.

 

[Wacky D]

I think the bigger issue, and maybe this was said at some point in the thread, is that for older artists, they had fans who would cop their album no matter what and maybe listen to it 10-20 times before it’s on to the next one. As more older fans convert to streaming, those older artists are losing those guaranteed physical/digital sales in exchange for a fan streaming the album 10-20 times which is a fraction of a “sale”.

naw.

listening to something 10-20 times before getting another CD was for broke people and/or youths with no income. the latter was usually the situation for most people who repeat this rhetoric.

music fans who were holding, werent clinging to the same ole music. they were the ones coppin up.

and I stand by that because for ME. its a dead technology.
what aren't you understanding?
if you're buying a CD in 2021, I'M looking at you all types of crazy because it simply does not make sense from MY perspective. ME nikka, ME.
lmao I don't know what you want from me chief..
edit: ya'll close to 40 I see. makes a lot of sense

this is even more ignorant.

you were better off just admitting that you contradicted yourself or whatever the situation was last week.