Ending Spotify's policy of granting all users..

[Ezeex 7]

I think it's fair and needed. In my country, Spotify ads are just "Spotify content". That is to say, they are ads inviting you to subscribe to the Premium service. There is almost no third parties content, so I think it's kind of difficult to subsist without external income.

I use Apple Music and pay for the family plan, which is USD 7.99 per month (I think that it is cheaper than in the US) and it is four of us listening to music (my boyfriend, my sisters and I) either on iOS/Android/Windows. I think that's pretty cheap overall, and you get new/legal/high quality music on the go.

[gagzus 16,012]

This is both good and bad in my eyes.

Good because it stops putting too much focus on streaming especially for debut sales, but bad because it means that the albums will have a disadvantage to already released albums. For example Gaga could drop an album a week after Katy and Katy's streams in the second week could be higher than Gaga's debut pure sales and streams on Apple Music and could make Gaga debut at #2 instead of #1. But this is just a hypothetical situation btw.

I guess it'll inspire less competition amongst artists to release close to each other and make people buy music again

[Fernster7 7,923]

Talent lost.

Illegal downloads... Here we go!

[JusticeforVenus 950]

5 hours ago, insight said:

how are artists supposed to make a living, otherwise? The painter paints, the sculptor sculpts, the musician writes and plays his music. Writing music for the sake of art and not expecting a profit in return is like for the landlord renting out his property to someone and not expecting to collect/ receive his monthly rent payments.

gurl, it was just a joke 

I did know that... And I also know Gaga loves to give credit to everyone who help her  She is lovable and a great singer and I am happy with it 

[Miel 15,009]

This would be more beneficial to artists, particularly artists that aren't as big-name/streaming force, right?

[Oivind 287]

11 hours ago, JolinTsai said:

Apple Music is available for Android devices though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&hl=zh_CN

I didn't know that. That surprised me. iTunes has never been avaiable, AFAIK.

[Raikov 183]

Amazed how people are angry over a delayed release. You'll still get to listen to the new album, just after two weeks! Do you need to listen to every album the day it drops? If you don't want Spotify premium, pay for the album when it comes out. There you go! You'd think Spotify was creating a premium-only library so freemium users can only listen to stuff from ten years ago.

I don't get why people are so willing to pay for Netflix but not Spotify or any other streaming service? Spotify is way more consistent with its licenses. The only instances I've encountered of losing access to music is when Kanye and Madonna withdrew their music for Tidal, then came back; and also Taylor Swift. Meanwhile Netflix pulls movies and shows like every month and rotates them, but people have no problem paying for that. Do people value music less than filmed content?

You know music isn't free to make. Studios cost a lot of money. Songwriting takes time, and that's opportunity cost. Just because artists today (it hasn't always been like that) make their money off tours doesn't mean it's 'right' to feel entitled to something that cost them time and money to make because you've arbitrarily decided they have "enough money." I'm honestly not especially persuaded by the argument that musical piracy is some great evil, and I've pirated myself and will probably continue to pirate, but I don't think it's good or morally justified. Most times if I can't afford an album, guess what: I don't buy the album! I have old music I can listen to as well! There are public libraries with CDs you can check music out from! It's a false equivalency to suggest that the poor's only option is freemium or piracy, as if any music they already had beforehand disappeared into thin air or as if other options to listen to music didn't exist. Music and entertainment are luxuries, not rights. We should totally come to an agreement about how to make music, as a cultural product, accessible to all sorts of parties, but you do not have some inborn right to listen to Ed Sheeran's new album the day it drops. Do what you will, but don't cloak it in terms of moral righteousness.