J. Cole's "KOD" has broken the US Spotify record for biggest opening day
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Dope that he could do it in all genres 
, obviously Spotify adds more users every day at a very high pace but still.
With the shyt he's talking about, with his cheap ass marketing and production of the album, no singles (major feat for Streaming), non-existent social media and still smashing the holy machines white princess Taylor Swift, is still
, obviously Spotify adds more users every day at a very high pace but still.With the shyt he's talking about, with his cheap ass marketing and production of the album, no singles (major feat for Streaming), non-existent social media and still smashing the holy machines white princess Taylor Swift, is still
It’s becoming redundant. These records don’t mean shyt and are just for marketing purposes. I actually think all these “records” that keep getting broken are only continuing to diminish the value of music..... but I’ll digress
The fact that these records get broken time all the means Spotify gets more members, which means that Spotify will pay the artists (see owners of the music) more money. If these people pay out 70% of their revenue from 100 million people, that's at least $8.4 billion in the coming 12 months.
More than twice as much as Warner Music Groups revenue, and on WMG, digital sales increased by 24% to 1.7b in 2017 which was a much bigger increase than the downfall in physical from 730m to 670m. So streaming is obviously a good thing the more people that stream. If it continues in this way, labels will be making more than they ever had in a few years. It's also good for artists with classics that will keep on getting streams forever, just look at someone like Ice Cube, dude has 5 million listeners every month. Millions of people have to pay him a few cents every month to listen to his shyt that they might've bought 25 years ago.
If Drake broke the record yall would be in here talking about "he runs the game 
" but since its Cole we gonna act like this isnt dope 
" but since its Cole we gonna act like this isnt dope 
GetRichOrDieTryin
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Congrats to cole 
I get what ur saying, but how many of these are paid subscribers? I remember reading an article about the current hip hop bubble with streams and how they were trying to find a way to restructure the charts based on paid subscribers listeners verse non-paid
I got the number wrong not 100 million but 70 million paying subscribers and 159m in total, so approx 6 billion in payouts. Add Apple Music, which claims 36 million paying. They've managed to capture a lot of people that would buy 1-2 albums per year and a few songs and get them to spend 120 per year. Or people like myself and my friends that were spending 0 on music and filling hardrives with .rar to spend 120 bucks.
Renegade47
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6 billion in payout
LevelUp
Posting on THECOLI & MIND MY BUSINESS..
typical though.If Drake broke the record yall would be in here talking about "he runs the game
Biebavelli
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I read that headline as "4.2m people got a fukking great nights sleep last night" 
