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toroddfuglesteg 
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 Posted: October 14 2010 at 10:57 |
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Your single gets 2 million airplays at Spotify and you earn $ 45. That is rip-off by everyone's standards.
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Anaon
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Joined: September 01 2005 Location: Kobaļa Status: Offline Points: 849 |
Posted: October 14 2010 at 11:25 |
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Yep... It's a great tool for listeners but it's not so good for artists unfortunately... It's still better than illegal download though. We can hope that if people like what they hear, they'll buy the album somehow (which is true as well with illegal download some may say
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Pelata
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Joined: January 04 2010 Location: NC-USA Status: Offline Points: 364 |
Posted: October 14 2010 at 11:59 |
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Free music is coming. As long as there is a band on every street corner in America and a "label" starting up in every basement, the music scene will remain flooded with not enough money to go around. Underground or above-ground, there are too many bands making too many albums for too many labels all reaching for the same small plate of money...most of them are just not going to get any of it.
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harmonium.ro
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
Posted: October 14 2010 at 16:21 |
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Seems like you answered your own question. That is exactly the reason why I'm not interested in Spotify. It's just the big boys of the industry pretending to be indie. |
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Theriver
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Joined: March 13 2010 Location: Lisbon Portugal Status: Offline Points: 181 |
Posted: October 14 2010 at 17:16 |
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The access to music will change, but good artist will still be around as they were before. I think too many artist (and labels) made too much money from crap music for too long but the good bands will survive and still make a living from music. They is new ways to make living from music, there is more and more festivals ( i thinks) bands will have to tour more, sell merchandising....I don't why some musicians think they deserve to not make good money from music just because they recorded a cd. I can think a lot of harder jobs that barely gets what some musicians get for an average album. Maybe the future be more fair. |
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moshkito
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Posted: October 14 2010 at 21:00 |
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No.
But free music has one advantage ... eventually it creates a massive audience. And any band that does not know how to play for free, is not a band that deserves the be playing music in front of an audience ... my point being, that you either love your work to the point where you also can give it away to some that also deserve it ... or simply admit it ... I'm trying to make a living off it.
The main problem, and California is an example, is that when someone says "free music" it usually means a bunch of freaks, hippies, druggies and ... lousy music! But don't try to convince me that Phish was free music ... more like over-rated notes!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 04:16 |
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What are Spotify getting for the privilege of hosting those 2m plays?
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Anaon
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:25 |
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By "big boys", you mean who? Spotify owners or Spotify artists? |
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:28 |
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^ No, the big labels, who are owning the majority of the music streamed on Spotify and who apparently (according to something that I read some time ago and hopefully I'll be albe to find the link again) are behind it. "The big boys of the industry" are never the bands or the service providers, but the major labels.
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Anaon
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:33 |
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Actually, you can any kind of bands but some big labels don't want to offer their music on streaming on Spotify, no Beatles, no Pink Floyd, no Led Zeppelin for example but a lof of progressive bands, famous or not.
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xeokym
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Joined: October 17 2005 Status: Offline Points: 15 |
Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:43 |
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That is true, I have very often "sampled" music through illegal downloading & then gone & bought the "official" CD if it was something I really liked. I can only speak for myself but I can't be the only one who does that...there's nothing like owning the actual CD, and I'm happy the money goes to the band when I really appreciate the work (well...not entirely...you know). It's not much different than what you can do on, for example, amazon, where you're allowed to listen to all the songs on the album once fully through (which is better IMO than just being able to listen to like 30 seconds of the song, which isn't enough in some cases) before buying, and one can purchase songs individually for 99 cents each as well as the entire CD all at once. Gone are the days of paying for an entire album just to get 1 or 2 songs one really wanted and then getting stuck with the rest of the album that one doesn't like at all. Although, with prog/art rock type music, personally if I like 1 or 2 songs then I tend to like the band's entire sound, and 9 times out of 10 I do want the entire CD. Prog rock is a bit different than your average radio airplay stuff...you don't exactly get to hear that kind of music played freely on the radio too much. |
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:44 |
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I dont think there is any blanket answer since the difference between a small time group like Tinyfish and the media darling that is Lady Gaga is huge, to the point where comparing the effects of illegal downloads is a bit pointless. "Artists" like Lady Gaga and any others with massive support form the major labels will continue as they are since they can build themselves up massive revenue streams through sponsorship and endorsments. Something tells me Porcupine Tree couldnt. As far as prog is concerned, I think there will always be an audiance willing to pay for the hard copy of a bands latest album as long as we think the band is worth spending money on. But remember that at the moment, the vast majority of still active bands that are listed on the archives are made up of semi- professionals, they do not make a living out of being musicians. To this extent I the major aim of selling music is to recoup the costs of recording it, since they arent likely to make much out of touring (some bands can make a small profit from touring, others make a loss). I dont know what revenue streams are like on merch so I wont talk about that.
To be honest though, the biggest thing that most of these bands are doing today is giving the labels the finger and going it alone. I was talking to Tom MacLean, lead guitarist of To-Mera, at the Summers End festival on saturday and he said that the band got fed up with the polotics and are now rebuilding to go it alone, we've seen Spock's Beard do that this year and Marillion have really provided the blueprint for this. As long as there are people willing to support these artists then I'm certain that they will keep going.
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sleeper
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 06:47 |
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You arent the only one, but as far as I can tell the majority just dont care, they'll take the songs and listen to them, but they wont give anything back.
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Anaon
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Joined: September 01 2005 Location: Kobaļa Status: Offline Points: 849 |
Posted: October 15 2010 at 08:03 |
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It's a kind of "marketing law" indeed, even if it's sad to talk about marketing and music. People have to hear, then like the music so they could buy. That's why radio play is (was) so important. It was the door to the buying of the album. Everything is changing now people can download the song they liked on the radio, or even the album. But there's also quality. People are getting bored to find out the song they liked on the radio is the only one they like on the album. A good reason to not buy the album. |
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: October 15 2010 at 08:33 |
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Spotify = payment spotty at best? |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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sleeper
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Posted: October 19 2010 at 06:39 |
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Yeah, but you can pay for singles and even there, people will just take the songs, no matter how much they like them, and never pay for them. Often the justification for this is "They're rich, I'm not".
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Anaon
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Posted: October 19 2010 at 07:51 |
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Yep, I know... That's what I say it "was" important, it's already the past actually...
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 19 2010 at 08:32 |
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In the future, music won't be either available or free.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Pelata
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Posted: October 19 2010 at 09:37 |
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In the old days, bands had to work for months/years playing live and perfecting their songs hoping to scrape up enough money for 8 hours at the local studio to make a demo. Working hard, making demos and playing shows used to be something bands had to do to "get a deal"...that record deal was the brass ring. Now that those brass rings are sold on the internet, music, in all its genres, is saturated.
These days, for less than what those 8 hours used to cost, a band can buy Pro-Tools (or even worse, download a pirated version), learn how to use it and record thier songs. The next thing you know, there are "bands" everywhere! Just because you wrote a song and had enough money for a computer does not mean you are owed a living.
In the future, live music will begin to take precedent again over recorded music. The saturation will get so bad that people will quit putting the time/money into recording and simply go out and play then offer recordings of the shows or possibly recorded singles to their core audience.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: October 19 2010 at 09:45 |
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Errm, NO. No band can get anywhere that fast, because the public only shows up when it hears actual quality. The fact that bands now have available a different model to record and release their music doesn't mean that the audiences have given up their demands. |
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