US to make streaming services pay more for music

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Good, so artists who are big on streaming but not on tour or actual sales can actually earn money.

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22 minutes ago, Bokhee said:

It's easy for you to say that when you have enough money to buy all the music you want to listen to. In my country music is not the cheapest thing in the world. Everything gets more and more and more expensive. There a lot of people who struggle to even bring food to their homes. Music is not something they can spend money on. Music is an art, and usually helps people to cope with their lives and enjoy more their lives. Music is something that brings people together.

This 

[FGGrayson 9,670]

Long live to TORRENTS!!

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4 minutes ago, Garzilazo said:

This 

We still have youtube and torrents sis

Its like new generatios lost the ability to find and recolect mp3 for free since Spotify was created lol, i only buy music for artists i stan like Gagz, Mandy & Sophie, yet i have hundreds of records stored in my 500GB Hard Drive

[freebit 6,228]

I think it's good they're doing this. I remember reading a breakdown once of what a typical major label artist would earn from streaming, and it was like, why even bother. It was pennies. 

I wonder why Spotify bothers with a freemium tier? It doesn't benefit them in a business sense at all IMO. And speaking as a cheapskate, the freemium tier sucks because of the annoying ad breaks after every other song. I prefer listening to my pirated music and the music I've bought on itunes tbh. 

[Anderson123 38,060]

1 hour ago, Bokhee said:

It's easy for you to say that when you have enough money to buy all the music you want to listen to. In my country music is not the cheapest thing in the world. Everything gets more and more and more expensive. There a lot of people who struggle to even bring food to their homes. Music is not something they can spend money on. Music is an art, and usually helps people to cope with their lives and enjoy more their lives. Music is something that brings people together.

I agree. It is easy to say something when you're not on someone else's shoes. I was just wondering how back in the day people actually had to buy records and how expensive it must have been to have a music collection, having to buy vinyls and singles, record players and stuff, etc. I love that we have the chance to listen to a TON of music and explore new genres without having to pay a cent. Sure, it is one's decision if you want to purchase an album but I feel like it's fair to be able to discover new songs every day. 

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1 hour ago, Alan123 said:

I agree. It is easy to say something when you're not on someone else's shoes. I was just wondering how back in the day people actually had to buy records and how expensive it must have been to have a music collection, having to buy vinyls and singles, record players and stuff, etc. I love that we have the chance to listen to a TON of music and explore new genres without having to pay a cent. Sure, it is one's decision if you want to purchase an album but I feel like it's fair to be able to discover new songs every day. 

We have a thing called radio back then, it's free and set better trends than viral stuffs that Spotify listeners made.

Radio made many legends and many iconic songs heard. From Stevie to Diana Ross to Donna Summer to MJ to Madonna to Whitney to TLC to Metallica to Manson to Linkin Park to Gaga. Streaming gave you garbage like Teach Me How To Dougie charting on #1 and never heard of again.

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5 hours ago, Bokhee said:

Music is not something they can spend money on. Music is an art, and usually helps people to cope with their lives and enjoy more their lives. Music is something that brings people together.

Yet you afford to have a smartphone and internet access. 

Can't afford purchasing music, stream it on YouTube.

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5 hours ago, highbythebeach said:

Artists make ALOT of money off of tours, isn't that enough?

Established artists do.

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Tinashe made 6 dollars in one month for her music last year lmao 

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5 hours ago, highbythebeach said:

Why shouldn't it be free? The artists still make money, and it lowers piracy. If they remove the free option, they'll just be losing money to piracy. Artists make ALOT of money off of tours, isn't that enough?

What makes it okay to just grab any record for free though? Artists work months on their albums and pay so many engineers and producers and managers for promotional campaigns and y'all still feel free to just steal someone's work? 

Whether they make profit somewhere else doesn't matter. It's still a project they've worked on and paid others for its fruition and thinking you can just grab it via torrents is such wrong thinking... 

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7 minutes ago, LetsGetHigh said:

What makes it okay to just grab any record for free though? Artists work months on their albums and pay so many engineers and producers and managers for promotional campaigns and y'all still feel free to just steal someone's work? 

Whether they make profit somewhere else doesn't matter. It's still a project they've worked on and paid others for its fruition and thinking you can just grab it via torrents is such wrong thinking... 

No that's not what I said. I don't believe stealing music from torrents is a good thing to do, but I don't see anything wrong with streaming a record on Spotify or YouTube for free, and it's definitely not stealing because we see/hear advertisements throughout and the artists to get paid. I tend to stream records to see which I like or not. I also stream the albums I kind of like but will probably get bored of soon. and I buy the records that I love, like albums of Gaga and Lana Del Rey. Is that really so wrong?

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2 minutes ago, highbythebeach said:

No that's not what I said. I don't believe stealing music from torrents is a good thing to do, but I don't see anything wrong with streaming a record on Spotify or YouTube for free, and it's definitely not stealing because we see/hear advertisements throughout and the artists to get paid. I tend to stream records to see which I like or not. I also stream the albums I kind of like but will probably get bored of soon. and I buy the records that I love, like albums of Gaga and Lana Del Rey. Is that really so wrong?

Oh then I misunderstood you. I do agree with you, as long as the free service is still treating the artist the same then im fine with it. Sorry for the mix up.

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[Arcanum 5,150]

Back in the day u went into record stores and searched for hours for your fav music. I remember searching for Mariah's debut everywhere in the city. The joy I felt when the last music shop I visited had a last copy of it dusted and in the last row was incomparable. 

Now everything is so easy. Music lost half its worth the moment you stopped waiting your fav to pop up on TV/radio.