Albeit
Streaming is the future, a Fact recognized by most broadcast media and hence
the reason why CBS (Canadian Broadcasting Service)
decided to launch US$5.99 per month CBS
All Access and then ad-supported CBSN
recently as reported in my blog article
entitled “CBSN
Streaming News Portal Internationals - First Digital Streaming News Channel
sponsored by Advertisers on your Browser”, it's clear that this a la carte model doesn’t make as much
money as some would want.
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Taylor Swift and her management basically
pulled out of Spotify because they
weren’t getting any money from Streaming of her Music as opposed to the sale of
Physical and Digital Singles and Albums as explained in “Taylor
Swift Explains Why She Left Spotify”, published NOV. 13, 2014, 12:16 PM by
PAMELA ENGEL, Business Insider.
Ok
folks, queue the Taylor Swift song Blank
Space from her Album 1989, as that’s basically what Taylor Swift’s seeing on her royalty check,
as the symbolism in the song suggest, the man actually symbolizing the Music
Industry and her feminist views on her misogynistic relationship with the same.
So
does this mean that the Streaming Model is just another fad? On the contrary
not; it’s really about how the company monetizes its Stream and who’s paying.
After
all, Taylor Swift spoke the incantation
and called my name in her video. So here’s my 2 cents!
Taylor Swift and
Spotify – Spotify’s giving away free Music to 37.5 million users worldwide
As
far as the Music and Movie Industry are concerned, Streaming is a godsend!
It’s
set to make them some US$1 billion this year even as the sale of Physical Media
i.e. CD’s and DVD and downloading are falling off the cliff as noted in my blog article
entitled “RIAA
Stats on Music Streaming – Why 4G LTE and Cheaper Cloud Storage means downloads
extinct”.
However,
this may not trickle down to the Artist, which is why Taylor Swift and her management are
obviously upset. Apparently they took a gander at Spotify’s Information Section….after
reading my blog article above, of course, and got real pissed!
According
to Spotify’s Information
Section, which Taylor Swift's
management may have perused, Spotify is
loaded. They’ve got over 20 million songs from thousands of Artiste streaming
to some 50 million subscribers worldwide, 12.5 million or just 25% of whom are
actually paying the US$8.00 per month to stream multiple Albums from multiple Artiste.
However
since launch back in 2011 as reported in
my blog article
entitled “Spotify
and Freemium in the Cloud - Shake, Rattle and Roll love for Internationals”,
they only paid out US$2 billion, which for 20 million songs works out to be
about US$100 in Royalties being paid out to every Artiste in their stable per
song SINCE Launch.
Albeit
my math is skewed, my logic isn't.
That's
actually less than the payout used to be when downloading was still king and
you had to pay US$9.99 for Music Albums on Apple iTunes; after about ten (10) downloads,
you'd have passed that figure for your Album that Spotify took three (3) years to achieve!
And
the Swedish Meatball that's Spotify just
looks to be getting fatter and fatter, gorging on some 20,000 new songs a day
and promulgating the creating of some 1.5 billion playlists for the rest of
their 37.5 million users to listen to Music that took a long time to produce in
the studio.....for free.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 – Spotify
need to get more of their users to pay for Music Streaming
My
main complaint, being as I’m NOT an Artiste, is that I wish Spotify was in Jamaica.
Why?
Our
Developing World country would run the website ragged with free Streaming. Most
Jamaicans are Pirates of the Caribbean who’d welcome Spotify from these Stranger tides as noted
in my blog
article entitled “How
to download High Quality Music via torrenting - The Mortal Instruments City of
Bones used to get Free Music”.
But
I understand why Taylor Swift is mad, albeit
I seen no reason why she had to stick a picture of me in her Music video!
Totally confused by that symbol!
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Her
Music is being streamed to a large global audience but her revenues are a mere
US$500,000 from the US market as noted in the article “Spotify
says it paid Taylor Swift millions. Her label disagrees. Here's the truth”,
published November 13, 2014 09:36 am By Ben Popper, The Verge.
Brethren
of the Illuminati, that figure should be much larger, larger than even the US$2
million from Global Streaming Revenue that Taylor
Swift herself revealed considering the population size and the percentage
of Americans with smartphones and their purchasing power to buy Music.
Similarly,
Tessanne Chin, 2013 winner of The Voice, should be equally pissed.
After
her Album Count on
My Love wasn’t allowing her to count any significant revenue from downloads
on Apple iTunes as noted in my blog article
entitled “Why
Tessanne Chin’s Count on My Love isn't selling – Streaming is now King as she
needs to Experiment with Writing her OWN Songs”, her management apparently
took my advice and decided to go the streaming route on Spotify.
Here’s
a link to Tessanne
Chin’s Album Count on My Love on Spotify, which already invites you to
listen to her Music for free. It doesn’t say to get a monthly subscription
upfront. Rather it offers the free option first.
This
approach may explain why only 25% of Spotify’s
50 million users base pays to Stream.
And
why Taylor Swift left Spotify and other Artiste may be
considering leaving Spotify, quite
justified in their actions. Spotify will
have to rectify this, or more will leave as this isn’t logically sustainable
from a business point of view; users have to pay for Music, not listen to it
for free.
Then
again most artiste can subsist on Touring but they still need Record Labels an
Streaming Services to draw millions of fans to their Music, an industry only
the Illuminati controlled Music Industry has the Money to Finance. This is a problem
that affects not just Taylor Swift but
the entire Music Industry, whoever really owns it, which is just now recovering
for losses due to declining Downloads and Physical CD and DVD sales.
Nobody’s
buying CD’s and DVD’s and downloading is
no longer cool in a world that has super fast 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) and
Gigabit Fiber Optic Internet as noted in my blog article
entitled “Gig.U
Third Annual Report - Google Fiber's American Gigabit Internet Revolution as
Jamaica starts Broadband Internet Revolution”.
Since
Taylor Swift’s 1989 isn’t Streamable and
free Music doesn’t make money, download it here and support the Artist:
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