Pure Adrenaline 1,518 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 It’s a Trap! TIDAL and the common fallacy of music royalties (...)Today’s relaunch of the lossless streaming service TIDAL was nothing more than a 15 minute parade of fame masquerading as a protest march for justice in the war on artist compensation. Jack White, Jason Aldean, Madonna, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, and a zillion other household names took the stage to declare their allegiance to a fledgling music service with no traction, no cashflow, and (in my opinion) sub-par software, all in the name of getting paid.Guess what: they’re still not getting paid.The reason artists don’t get paid from streaming services is that they don’t own the music they record.It’s scary for artists to learn how many people have listened to their music, and compare to the fractional royalty statements they’re being sent. Thing is, it’s not Spotify’s fault.(...)Labels own the content, and they sell it to TIDAL and other services wholesale. And that’s who gets paid. If an artist gets anything (sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t), it’s because the deal they have with their label allows for a fraction of sales to be paid out as royalties (after they recoup their advances, of course).If we want a war, let’s have a war. But let’s make it about unfair label contracts, and not about whether streaming services are paying out enough money. https://medium.com/@revrev/it-s-a-trap-tidal-and-the-common-fallacy-of-music-royalties-db479441ad58 poor sistrens didn't know what they were signing for .... even when u r rich the small letters are important in the contract It's much more fun to have hizophrenia... u never get lonely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperado 2,439 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 omg x.x Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Lo 2,481 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 hop on that **** like a maniac Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEARTHUNTER 7,611 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 LMAO I knew this would happen when I saw the conference last night Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperado 2,439 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 too much for artistic freedom and artistic integrity x.x! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarryNight 10,103 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 welp that was quick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfish 577 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 its all such a joke, the only good thing is its giving Madonna more publicity, yassssIt will flop, and this time next year it wont be popular at all. I invented post-its Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 32,702 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I'm sure that artists know about this, though I mean, like the article says, the labels make the deals, not the artists, streaming royalties details are in their contracts and they're getting paid accordingly so you can be sure that they're aware of this. Taylor's anti-Spotify stunt was probably a smart way to boost sales and TIDAL will probably make different deals with record labels so the artists do get more money, but I wouldn't call that backfiring. I'd call that success. Still pretentious and hypocritical, but success. What's more probable to me is that labels and artists are working together to earn more money together. Stupid article. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix 17,395 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Dying at small letters part 💎 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daviddarko 144 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 take that greedy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf 1,328 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Nnnn should've seen it coming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar 1,031 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Why don't we pick up the music industry and push it somewhere else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriverMonster 10 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 No one is going to pay $20 a month when we have so many other options. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VelmaDinkley 195 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Except for madonna they are all so stupid Especially rihanna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmm 979 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 No one is going to pay $20 a month when we have so many other options. The $10 option exists though; which puts it in direct competition with Spotify/GooglePlay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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