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I definitely feel like spotify and streaming services in general made us less appreciate art and music. pre streaming era i used to obsess over my favorite CDs and listen to them over and over again, always excited when i inserted the CD into the player. now i catch myself listening to music on streaming services more to fill the background with something while doing some other task. we tend to think about music as an almost free and accessible medium when it is definitely not. support indie artists via bandcamp or merch or going to their shows!

I was able to record songs with a tape player off the radio when I was 6. All my friends and family did the same thing. Nothing has changed except the platform. Just like you couldn't expect to hear new and interesting things by listening to the radio, you won't hear anything new and interesting by lazily surfing streaming platform algorithms. You have to dig. At least now it doesn't require postage stamps, phone books, and word of mouth. Music isn't dead. Pop music is and always have been for the complacent casual listener. Lars was being a crybaby.

The music industry is dead. Music has now become a hobby for 95 percent of musicians. Revenue from streaming will not be sustainable in the nearest future. That bubble will burst soon enough. I feel so bad for artists i produce who sell their belongings, use all their earnings from theie jobs to pay me to produce and mix and master their songs knowing that the money may never come back. Someone has to figure this shit out. No one except the likes of drake e.t.c is really making any money

Current users of Spotify could choose to stop, they have free will. I’ve never used it. CDs are still for sale, and even iTunes gives more to the artists than Spotify.

Current users of Spotify could choose to stop, they have free will. I’ve never used it. CDs are still for sale, and even iTunes gives more to the artists than Spotify.

Napster wasn't a webpage. It was an application.

Make a new album, LOSE MONEY. Go out on tour, LOSE MONEY! Stay away from this pointless business!

gonna just post content and sell my music on my website, fuck all that noise xD

This is why we need rank choice voting!

Such bullshit, the record labels and rights holders sell the music They own to Spotify, the artists don’t own the music anymore, stop fucking bellyaching

Music is going better than ever and merch doesn't cost that much. If you're only going for major iheartmedia shit, you kinda deserve to be scammed. Support smaller local artists and you won't be.

No he was not right. The Napster of the 80's was cassette tapes which Metallica very much profited from, by increasing their reach into the ears of metalhead. Things like Napster did the same for other small time musicians. So no they were not right. The reason Spotify does not work is because there are a few bad actors who figured out how to scam it and since it does not hurt them, they don't really care about stopping it.

to support artists, just buy all 27 color variations of billie eilish's new album on vinyl

A lot about the industry has changed though, it's never been this cheap to produce high quality music with the technology that is available to anyone with a PC. Music is also much easier to find than even say 15 years ago. Making music isn't just for people with a contract at a label anymore, but maybe we should accept you won't be making a full-time salary. And let's be honest, that has pretty much always been the case.

Record Labels killed that market for me, I'm 54. Being Canadian, music stores wanted to charge $25 for a music CD that had 2, maybe 3 good songs, the rest of the CD was fluff. During Napster's time I still bought the few CD's that had very little fluff. Metallica's Black album was one of them, Nirvana, U2, Pearl Jam, Big Shiny Tunes to name a few were absolutely worth buying. Concert prices are now through the roof due to Ticket Master's greed and scalping. My purchasing of CD's was severely reduced in the late 90's. If it wasn't for Pandora, and now Spotify I would not be spending any money on music.

And with this AI boom pay for stream got 1/10

I never use Spotify

Has it done wonders for the world, though? Let's actually dissect how it has done wonders for the world. Because, as far as I can tell, only a handful of countries in the West actually use Spotify or streaming services for that that matter as a main source of music procurement, while the rest of the world sticks to pirating. Even more so, this practice of eating up mostly what the platform pushes to us for consumption, keeps us and new artists from diversifying and enriching our overall experience. It also leads to an overload of options, which make us revert to either popular playlists, previously played songs, or turn to some podcast to distract us out of lack of patience. Discovery is discouraged, therefore it seems the behaviour defaulted to what the industry had already been doing - heavily pushing "hits" and compilations, which we were already doing even before cassettes were invented. The benefit of these services is currently underwhelming, at best, and the cost is extremely high in the long run.

I listen to music mostly on vinyl, or live. I killed nothing

Well, I mean I wouldn't know 90% of the music I listen to (If it wasn't for Spotify's algo), and the ones I really like I contribute on other sources. I should look for alternatives though, need multiple algos now Spotify is feeding too many previously liked songs.

Boycott Spotify

Telling everyon to just switch to Tidal for the billionth fucking time. They pay the artists closer to a cent per stream, makes a huge difference.

I have a friend who gets upset with Kindle. A book costs $20. It's a physical product. A book on Kindle is $10. "It should be $1." No one values the actual content anymore.

So true sadly sigh 😞

Spotify is great. There's a ton of music and it's dirt cheap to produce and everyone does some.

Psssshh! As a rapidly aging guitarist, I’ve never used an internet radio service (outside of NPR) and still buy my music 😎. Partly because I fear change but I dont like the idea of losing access to my music collection when I stop paying a regular fee and I also like to actively search for music, not have it pushed on me.

time to make music for the heck of it while we watch the world burn

There's no such thing as intellectual property. It's just a delusional construct of the capitalist money grubbing mindset. Record labels only got rich because people were forced to buy hardware to listen to music.

Lawyers and accountants are lifeforms that will eventually die out...but not before they have exterminated all the rest of us by depriving us from all the funky and fun stuff and turning our world into a joy and loveless autotuned hell. I have nothing but contempt for Napsterdude, Daniel Ek and their ilk. I do know they dont give a shit about what I or anyone else that might share my views on scumbags cashing in on the labor of others think, feel or say. Stealing from people that actually make something as opposed to scheming on how to put themselves in a position that will enable them to pocket money that otherwise, and rightfully, belong in the hands of hard working artists. The sad thing is that the music business back in the day, the only place an alternative to todays nightmare could have come from, was governed by sacks of shit that never had a genuine interest in music or artists . Noone working in this multi billion business managed to come up with an succesful alternative to the LP- not in terms of being profitable but by being Objects of Desire and a beautiful( not always) physical manefestation of the music stored within(on) the object itself.The LP ruled for 80 years goddammitt! Record excecutives are often portrayed in the media as visionaries...Ha ha, visionaries! Most of the shame felt in this world is felt by the wrong people... Ill stop now...Don´t want to anyone to think I´m grumpy and not a happy go lucky elflike kind of guy. Peace out;)

Say what you will about *Rick Beato* and especially *The Professor of Rock,* but both of them are way better than this *Bad ideas* idiot will ever be!

Music industry jumped the shark when rap took over in the EARLY 1990's. Sad thing is that rap was somewhat more respectable in the 1980's...until it sold out to the same corporate 1st letter 19th letter twice 8th letter 15th letter 12th letter 5th letter 19th letter (that *Bad ideas* defends) like the other genres. The corrupt music industry is responsible for why Napster and it's successors were created, along with the "legal" Napsters like Spotify.

😂Yes it's definitely dead. "... $60 billion in gross revenue per year."

*Bad ideas* is corporation 3rd letter 15th letter 3rd letter 11th letter 19th letter 21st letter 3rd letter 11th letter 9th letter 14th letter 7th letter sack of 19th letter 8th letter 9th letter 20th letter that brings up the Playstation 2 and George Bush Jr. for no reason just because it was 2000, and has this 19th letter 8th letter 9th letter 20th letter drawing ZOOMING IN at the end of the video annoyingly! That right there should tell you that he enjoys the music the industry TELLS HIM WHAT'S GOOD like Sarah Connor's *Bounce,* and N*SYNC's *Bye, Bye, Bye* instead of thinking for himself of what is good.

You should ask Prince why he changed his name and his CDs .

No. Having all the music I want to listen in one app with a superior sound isn’t a bad thing. Why should people rake in $$ because they make art? I make art and I’m broke as s***. Art should be a hobby, not something you can sustain yourself off of. Music should have never been commodified it’s literally part of our genetic passing. It’s in all of us.

My push back is my taste in music didnt have avenues to be easily accessible in 2000. TH-cam and Spotify have helped me discover all sorts of smaller to mid range acts that arent on radio or available in local record shop. I do see these bands struggling so when I attend live shows I buy the absurd $50 t-shirt as a way to support them.

theres like more good music you could listen to in 10 years. hell if i care about modern music

if music is dying its because of overpriced concert tickets musicians always made most of their money from live performances lars was not right, piracy hardly affects sales, its proven and people hate metallica because they paid someone to find out who downloaded their music and tired to sue their fans... and because st anger was sellout bullshit i miss loving metallica

No, it's not

Indeed Lars Ulrich and Taylor Swift did have a point about Spotify but I still much prefer Metallica over Taylor Swift musically but I will happily both take him and Taylor Swift over Katy Perry and the doughnut licker anyday. 😂

A true Y2K moment at 4:56 if you knew what he would say next! 😂

are u midwestern?!

2:4o literally have a friend who is a local muscian in our city but is a librarian during the day. ha! granted she's quite a small artist but just found this funny

Ok retard

damn :(((

I have never listened to Spot, my friends had it but they did not care very much for it anyway, i like to go hear local music or watch performances on youtube or bands websites (and i do not mind paying a price to watch and hear) so the only thing dead is...good journalism.

Sometimes you also just have to download and burn the audio CD that's just how life is. So many compilation albums have gone out of print as well. Some of the older out of print Greatest Hits albums have worlds better tracklist than what's out today.

The hole Napster thing makes sense right up until the hundreds of thousands of bands that haven't been released to CD that are now no longer available to hear without physical vinyl or tapes and if you think the list on TH-cam is pretty extensive, no, it's not. Have a nice day.

Tip for growth, don’t blame the consumer/viewer or whatever. Whether it’s music or youtube shlop you don’t bully the end consumer since they don’t usually enjoy it.

struggling to get past "artists were happy" lmao