That 9 dollar a month smartphone app that lets you listen to any album.....

[nineteeneightysix]

I don't care about the artists...

All I want to know is how can I save those albums permanently as flac or mp3 files on a hard drive...?

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

yea these artists is dumb allowing that shyt to fly.......nikkas sitting over there believing that records aint sellin like they used to cause of the economy...while the labels is out here blantaly sabatoging these nikkas record sales

It's not that records aren't selling cause of the economy, it's cause the internet is so prominent.

why buy records when we can get them for free?

rappers are making more money than ever now... but so are record labels.

it's pretty much a "do you want to make something...or nothing at all" situation for these dudes music.

How do you think iTunes became so prominent?

 

[JasonSJackson]

I don't care about the artists...

All I want to know is how can I save those albums permanently as flac or mp3 files on a hard drive...?

 

[L&HH]

Y'all nikkas better believe they getting paid and they getting paid a whole lot. So much so that those companies barely make any moneyHow much artists make from Pandora:

According to Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, Pandora will pay over two thousand artists $10,000 each over the next 12 months. Yeah it's not a milli a milli for every artist but that's still a solid chunk of change! The top dogs in music obviously get a lot of money:

Drake - $3 million
Lil Wayne - $3 million
Coldplay - $1 million
Adele - $1 million
Wiz Khalifa - $1 million
Jason Aldean - $1 million
Rascal Flatts - $670,351
Ellie Goulding - $609,046
Zac Brown Band - $547,064
Mumford & Sons - $523,902
Iron & Wine - $173,152
Bon Iver - $135,223
George Winston - $85,239
The Four Tops - $65,173

But lesser known artists are getting paid too. Artists I've never heard of like Donnie McClurkin, French Montana or Grupo Bryndis (who rank 4,752, 17,000 and 183,187, respectively on Amazon) are each collecting $100,000-$138,000 a year from Pandora. Pandora is happy to pay these 'performance fees' to artists but the RIAA and Congress keep trying to make it harder for internet radio stations to succeed. Sigh. Artists getting paid good money for their own music would be something the awful RIAA would be against.

Here's How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

license agreements

 

[Edi]

Y'all nikkas better believe they getting paid and they getting paid a whole lot. So much so that those companies barely make any moneyHow much artists make from Pandora:



Here's How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

Drake & Wayne probably made more money off Pandora than they did their own albums

smh @ the RIAA

 

[newarkhiphop]

i refuse to pay a subscription fee for a service unless am aloud to keep at least SOME of the music

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

i refuse to pay a subscription fee for a service unless am aloud to keep at least SOME of the music

i'm all about having music on other platforms besides streaming

 

[Judas Carter]

Or you could just dl w/e songs/slbums you want

 

[Liquid]

If someone was independent and smart, yes. But most people youre "supporting" have no clue whats going on AFTER they sign that contract.

I never heard of Rdio, so you recommend that over Spotify? I use spotify all the time.

 

[illadope]

I never heard of Rdio, so you recommend that over Spotify? I use spotify all the time.

I sure do, that or iTunes Match...if you have an iOS device. Id put googles music option over both if they would get their shyt together

 

[Liquid]

free trial for rdio? I might put my spotify subscription on hold next week if its not there. Mobile is what is important to me. What is so different exactly? It looks like the same shyt on the surface from what I see so far.

 

[illadope]

free trial for rdio? I might put my spotify subscription on hold next week if its not there. Mobile is what is important to me. What is so different exactly? It looks like the same shyt on the surface from what I see so far.

Why i like it so much is that its like an online iPod essentially. Plus the whole social aspect to it is kind acool as well

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

Y'all nikkas better believe they getting paid and they getting paid a whole lot. So much so that those companies barely make any moneyHow much artists make from Pandora:



Here's How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

Which means Pandora is fukking stupid. I expect them to be out of business within the next 2 years. You can't keep paying that kind of money knowing good and well that most folks do not pay for the premium service on Pandora.

 

[L&HH]

Which means Pandora is fukking stupid. I expect them to be out of business within the next 2 years. You can't keep paying that kind of money knowing good and well that most folks do not pay for the premium service on Pandora.

Yea that's why the ceo released the statement, to arouse some sort of backlash against them or something.