Riot Poof 2,236 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 When your loyalty to your friend's streaming service costs you 500,000 potential sales: I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you'll never understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HausOfMark 4,279 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I want to hear it.. anyone.. anyone? -Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James19709 456 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Am I the only one that couldn't give less of a **** about Kanye West? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 That means it can be certified Platinum, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaxboy 5,748 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I know artists barely make money off of album sales, but isn't he $50,000,000 in debt? He SHOULD have sold it! Or signed a deal with Samsung Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yanko 9,860 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 that demand king of rap :applause: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I wish they would just let TIDAL die... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
isak 173 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I don't care for West or his music but I'd probably pirate it just to piss him and TIDAL off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darcklighter22 2,358 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 5 hours ago, isak said: I don't care for West or his music but I'd probably pirate it just to piss him and TIDAL off. I did this and the music is really not all that...he can keep it on Tidal tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravenewworld 153 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 please give me alink to wolves ft frank oecan please i can't find it anywhere Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 106,871 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 This was the dumbest thing Kanye could've done. He sacrificed his album for Tidal.... it's NOT HAPPENING. Look, I'm using the free trial on Tidal just to listen to this album. I will NOT pay for the service later. I refuse to give my money to a company that does this. Music should be available in ALL formats and services or at least available in more than one service. The Tidal app is good though, I should add. Better than Spotify. I was actually going to buy the album. Now I just illegally downloaded it to have it after my Tidal free trial is over. Imagine how many sales those would be. They are literally making people NOT buy music Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Woodson 234 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I pirated TLOP... It's not as good as his previous albums, But it's dope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryBlond 14,929 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I will never understand why anyone could think that making something exclusive is good for sales, especially in this case. It would be one thing if online streaming was the only method of listening to music, but that's not the case. You can still buy physcial copies, digital copies, listen to YouTube. With all these legal methods in place, it is madness to make your music exclusive not only to one method but only to one brand within that method. And even more madness to make this brand one that you have to pay for to listen to anything. If it was exclusive to stream in general, that's one thing. Miley did that with her album - anyone can listen to it for free. But making it exclusive to a site where you have no option but to pay in order to listen to the music? That means that every time a fan wants to hear it, they'll have to login to Tidal - they can't access it on a CD or an MP3 player or anything else. They can't transport the songs anywhere they like. Also, they will never own a physical copy and some people like that (plus, it can provide an extra sale these days as a lot of superfans buy both digital and physical). It means that all his fans are going to have to pay at least $9.99 a month for the rest of their lives if they want to listen to this album all the time. And what happens when Tidal inevitably shuts down? He can't relaunch an album physically in say, a year from now. It'll mean it's consigned to the bowels of history, never to be found again. If you want to stand a chance of making music timeless, you have to make it as widely available as you can, so lots of people can preserve it forever. It makes no sense to sell something via trying to make it as hard to get hold of as possible. Kanye has officially lost his mind. There's no going back now. Even if he released the album properly tomorrow, the damage is done. He overestimated how devoted and submissive his fanbase were because if even his own fans are pirating the album, there's no hope for it. Frankly, the people who could have purchased it will now think he doesn't deserve the sales after how ridiculous he acted beforehand. This is a true example of the public showing that they do indeed run the show when it comes to music, not the artist, like some delusional people would believe. Keep at it, people. We need to send the message to the industry that we will not bow to artist's demands of us just because they want us to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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