Surprise surprise. Taylor Swift 1989 is on the very top of the new Apple Music page on your phone. Front and center. So although she positions herself to be cloaked in nobility via her open letter, she’s also making sure she gets paid for it.
Man, I’d love to see the email exchanges from the Apple/Taylor camps that made this happen.
I’ve had Apple Music for about 15 minutes now. Looks good, works well, haven’t listened to the radio station Beats 1 yet, but that might be fun sometime.
Here’s some things that would be cool in the future:
-When someone listens to an artist more than 10 times, they get sent an email saying when the artist is touring near them and a discount on the ticket
-When someone listens to a particular song more than 50 times, the artist has created unique merchandise for that song that the listener is directed toward.
-In real time, artists can see how many people in a city are listening to their songs. It might look something like a heat map. And it’s all archived for the artist so they can see seasonal, daily, hourly trends.
-Maybe for a premium price, artists can know which artist someone listened to right before them and right after them, specifically.
-Not only national/international charts but state/city charts. With numbers. Numbers that can’t be bought or fudged. And artists can search to see where they stand in each city, as far as streams go.
-Artists start only promoting Apple Music/Spotify etc so that instead of 30 million paid subscribers, there’s 300 million paid subscribers.
You can sit and debate whether or not streaming is good or bad. Have fun with that. You’ll hash it out for a couple hours with a buddy and be no better for it.
Or you can embrace the fact that it’s here to stay and figure out how to work with it and use it for everyone’s benefit.
p.s. As for the ins and outs of the Apple Music software, I’ll need more time with it before I weigh in on it. But I’m sure there will be a bazillion reviews and articles online by this afternoon telling you everything that’s good and bad.
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