There trying to get their fans on board. The whole press conference was a marketing ploy. "Hey look at all your favorite artists hanging out now buy all our music because we say so" and of course some easily led people will buy it. The photo is cute though | |
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Agree with all of this but once again there aren't any independent artists on the Tidal stream. Its just mainstream stars so regardless they are the only ones profitting. There are a ton of unknown acts and indie artists that stream on other popular music services so why can't they stream on this one? If they are trying to promote "artists taking control and getting all their profits" shouldn't that include indie/independent artists as well and not just pop stars? There seems to be an agenda here.
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Agree with all of this but once again there aren't any independent artists on the Tidal stream. Its just mainstream stars so regardless they are the only ones profitting. There are a ton of unknown acts and indie artists that stream on other popular music services so why can't they stream on this one? If they are trying to promote "artists taking control and getting all their profits" shouldn't that include indie/independent artists as well and not just pop stars? There seems to be an agenda here.
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Tidal apparently has 25 million songs. Unless Beyoncé and Madonna have way more albums than I know of, there must be many artists on Tidal. I'm interested in how much (if at all) their royalties differ on Tidal vs Spotify. If those small artists don't benefit, then this whole thing is just a cynical ploy to make fat cats even fatter. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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I still can't get on board with paying to use Spotify or similar services. All the people I know that use it generally don't even like music that much and just useit to listen to random things that might be popular right now. Not to mention a few have been charged twice every month for it and bugs in the app have rendered it useless for weeks on end. Also every time I've personally done a search for something on it, what I'm looking for isn't available.
I just still believe in buying music outright for some crazy reason. [Edited 3/31/15 4:34am] | |
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cant believe some people dont understand why you would pay for music ?.....i paid ten pounds a month for spotify in 320 mp3 quality until sonos had a deal with deezer elite in which i paid 35 pounds for a whole year of lossless streaming music which i thought was a great deal...i will happily pay for good quality streaming music...i think the problem here is that 20 pounds a month is unrealistic and people aint going to pay that for good quality music....not when spotify have a free option with adverts...spotify have 60 million customers but 45 million of them use the free option and they are finding it difficult to get them to move to the paid option. | |
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Youtube is next.... It has to be.
Once they get rid the site of all of the fan-uploads of songs..
I think The Carters appreared at a Trayvon Martin rally with his parents. The others, I do not know about.
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They attended one rally and that was AFTER the trial... ya know when it was safe to come out and choose a side Those Carters did not utter one word on Ferguson or any of the black social issues that has taken place over the last several months. Thats disgusting being they are the biggest black stars out right now and they didnt say not ONE thing about any of the issues affecting black people? Black people need to stop putting money in the Carters pockets because its clear they don't care about them. | |
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FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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It's all marketing.. The new "hip to youngsters" is the latest site or tech..So, the conference may be a way to keep your music relevent, and to sell more concert seats..I think most at the conference are signed to LiveNation or RocNation. [Edited 3/31/15 6:27am] | |
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Why would you pay for streaming music? Simple - the same reason you pay your water bill. For access to water when you need or want it. - a "cloud locker" of 50,000 songs where you can upload your music. |
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.......or less. FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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Whatcha thinking Gray? | |
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I'm thinking u may be correct. FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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lowkey said: can somebody please explain why you would pay a monthly fee to listen to music? This is the org. Some people here spend 25% of their income on music re-masters and box sets which amazes me when they already have the original album,cd, or cassette. I don't even buy cd's like I used to. There is no way in hell I'm paying for a monthly music service I may not even use very often but if it's less than 10 bucks it can't be that bad. Don't laugh at my funk
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Thought: This is the Columbia House of online-streaming services. "Music like water" has been debated since the start of the 2000s. IMO the free water on YouTube often tastes better than Perrier. | |
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The main thing selling it is to have my own "cloud locker" because I like to access my exact versions of stuff, so the album versions in their 30 million+ catalog simply never got my attention. | |
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I think the "owned by artists" tagline is a bit of a ruse. Someone asked on Twitter where the monthly subscription fee goes, and Tidal replied that 75% of it goes back to the music labels who then distribute it to the artists, producers, songwriters, etc. So it seems the artists aren't really getting a bigger piece of the pie, they're becoming their own accountants.
[Edited 3/31/15 7:32am] "That's when stars collide. When there's space for what u want, and ur heart is open wide." | |
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TheGoldStandard said: Thought: This is the Columbia House of online-streaming services. "Music like water" has been debated since the start of the 2000s. IMO the free water on YouTube often tastes better than Perrier. All the access I need and you'll more than likely find more volume of hard to find music than anywhere else. Free of charge! [Edited 3/31/15 7:33am] Don't laugh at my funk
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I had no idea Google Play offered that 50K song locker. iTunes Match tops out at 25K, which isn't enough. Amazon gives you 250K, but their streaming library is ridiculous. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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. I like Amazon's streaming library, its like going to a weird record store in an unfamiliar land. . Amazon: "Well, we don't have the indie electronic producer's ALBUM but we have several of their rare remixes and compilation tracks you might have never even known existed." The jazz library on Amazon is absurd. | |
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Try it out. I think the cloud locker part is free, it's only their library that you pay for.
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Darn it, I'm old school. | |
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Rebel Heart (SD version) is the first album I've purely bought as a download...still ended up burning it on a CD too for other listening options! In the past, though, I've bought many individual songs from various artists. "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 | |
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This. I agree. For all JayZ's business acumen he should have thought the rollout through better, but no one there has had to think about how they spend money since 1990 lolololol | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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so the point of this is for the artist to actully not get ripped off? | |
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well they'e been really really quiet about that part. amazing rt? | |
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isnt it becasue not only is it miniscule but theres room for theft also? | |
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