The music industry definitely has changed with digital media. How music is heard is completely different, for one, CD players are forever gone, now added to histories artifacts in the museums. People don’t even need to buy music anymore, albums are soon going away and buying individual songs is slowly following behind it. Streaming music has become convenient to people, especially after Apple created their own streaming service, ” Apple Music.” How easy is it that not only do you get a iPhone, but you get streaming service already built into the phone; of course for a price to subscribe.
My thoughts… we are technically spending more money subscribing then actually buying the songs you listen to. For one person to subscribe to apple music is $9.99, $10. If you went on iTunes that’ll be 10 songs a month that you would be able to get and keep forever. 10 songs per month,you’d have 120 songs in a year. And how much music do you really listen to? People have thousands of songs on their iPods/phones and listen to less than half of those songs. Streaming may work for some people.. not all.
How artist get paid has also changed with how music is heard, music artist has lost control on how music is heard and lose a lot of money for this streaming service everyone loves. They pay artist cents for streaming music, when they could be making more actually selling songs and albums. Artist lack control and ownership of their music, which is exactly why Jay-Z bought Tidal.
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Great response!