Spotify CEO: "The ones that aren't doing well in streaming are people who release music the old way"

[Shego 36,847]

 

I'll keep it cute.  

[Infrared 20,649]

so basically line Spotify's pockets for playlist support and you'll succeed!

[Villanelle 5,143]

What kind of human egg

I'll remind him that Spotify started as an illegal streaming service that allowed people to stream any songs for free

As much as I love my Spotify and use it every day, it will NEVER replace traditional release formats and the fact that vinyls and fucking cassettes have made a huge comeback is testiment to that. 

Also, it still isn't more financially beneficial to be better on streaming than physical releases

[sicknebula 16]

What does he mean by "the old way" anyway? Still releasing physical copies? Vinyls, cassettes, CDs + ALBUM ART are very important. 

[Gilly 12,318]

1 hour ago, Infrared said:

so basically line Spotify's pockets for playlist support and you'll succeed!

playlisting can help but it does not guarantee streams/success sis. There’s countless of examples that prove this (e.g camilas existence) 

[Gilly 12,318]

2 hours ago, sicknebula said:

What does he mean by "the old way" anyway? Still releasing physical copies? Vinyls, cassettes, CDs + ALBUM ART are very important. 

perhaps he means that some artists still release music with a focus on physical sales/focus on traditional forms of promo like tv performances, releasing albums exclusively on itunes (ala beyonce), instead of investing in more modern modes of promo like exclusive videos for spotify (vertical videos), streaming exclusives (like drake on apple music), etc. And he isnt wrong. 

[Princess Aurora 31,347]

I mean Did he lie ? 

[Atlantis Princess 8,377]

This erily reminds me of radio stars vs video stars back when MTV came out and some artists didn't wanna modernize and release their music with a video.

Interesting the fandom whose fave benefited from that are now so pressed about streaming 

[Divine 183,086]

1 hour ago, Gilly said:

perhaps he means that some artists still release music with a focus on physical sales or focus on traditional forms of promo like tv performances, releasing albums exclusively on itunes (ala beyonce), instead of investing in more modern modes of promo like exclusive videos for spotify (vertical videos), streaming exclusives (like drake on apple music), etc. And he isnt wrong. 

That’s exactly how I took it and yea he’s not wrong  the grudge op and other pop forum stans have against streaming is very odd behavior  

[Shego 36,847]

The way comebacks like Cher's for example will never be possible to happen again tho.

[sicknebula 16]

5 hours ago, Gravity said:

This erily reminds me of radio stars vs video stars back when MTV came out and some artists didn't wanna modernize and release their music with a video.

Interesting the fandom whose fave benefited from that are now so pressed about streaming 

That MTV thing.... yeah

[StanLeeMusique 260]

The audacity of him to say this when he knows damn well labels give him payola and numbers are probably altered the same way they are on Tidal