Yeah I know streaming is great because you can put the mp3 on your phone and in your car, yada, yada, yada.
But if you ask me, it doesn't work.
You have absolutely no idea if a record is successful or unsuccessful. A computer hacker can figure out a way to make it appear that a song, or album, is getting millions (even billions) of streams. Katy Perry has a song called Roar that has over a billion streams. But I don't believe it because the song is boring.
A few weeks ago I posted all of the songs that went diamond and 9/10ths of them came out in the streaming era.
I liked the original iTunes model. You could pay $0.99 for an mp3 of a song.
But I don't like the Spotify/Tidal/Google Play/Apple Music model where you can stream an album and it counts as a sale, or half a sale, or whatever their formula is. New music is getting inflated numbers and I just don't believe that new music is selling more than older music. Because an old song, like, say, Dear Mama sold whatever it sold when it came out, plus whatever it sold every year thereafter.
It would stand to reason that Dear Mama would have outsold Old Town Road because it's been around longer, but Old Town Road is diamond and Dear Mama is Platinum (according to wiki)
Does anybody here really believe that Old Town Road has more sales/streams than Dear Mama?
But if you ask me, it doesn't work.
You have absolutely no idea if a record is successful or unsuccessful. A computer hacker can figure out a way to make it appear that a song, or album, is getting millions (even billions) of streams. Katy Perry has a song called Roar that has over a billion streams. But I don't believe it because the song is boring.
A few weeks ago I posted all of the songs that went diamond and 9/10ths of them came out in the streaming era.
I liked the original iTunes model. You could pay $0.99 for an mp3 of a song.
But I don't like the Spotify/Tidal/Google Play/Apple Music model where you can stream an album and it counts as a sale, or half a sale, or whatever their formula is. New music is getting inflated numbers and I just don't believe that new music is selling more than older music. Because an old song, like, say, Dear Mama sold whatever it sold when it came out, plus whatever it sold every year thereafter.
It would stand to reason that Dear Mama would have outsold Old Town Road because it's been around longer, but Old Town Road is diamond and Dear Mama is Platinum (according to wiki)
Does anybody here really believe that Old Town Road has more sales/streams than Dear Mama?