The Breakfast Club: A Boogie says “3,000 streams equal one sale now. They changed it to make it harder for us to sale.”
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RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
No wonder everyone flopping
A bunch of flops and manufactured "stars" posing as "artists" nowadays. If you for real you will sell
#Swifties
Oh so Nas really sold 60k first week
Its cray how these streaming deals sound like laface record contracts 
It's like that because they should stop counting streams as sales in the first place. Streaming should strictly be streaming. Streams shouldn't count towards an album sale because it isn't the same. There shouldn't be a sales equivalent.
They should just make the charts, certifications, and what not reflect streams. Those numbers shouldn't be combined because no matter how many times an album is streamed, it isn't the same as a sale. It's like counting the amount of times someone listened to a song or an album they bought as opposed to tracking how many times the song or album was purchased. Two entirely different things.
They should just make the charts, certifications, and what not reflect streams. Those numbers shouldn't be combined because no matter how many times an album is streamed, it isn't the same as a sale. It's like counting the amount of times someone listened to a song or an album they bought as opposed to tracking how many times the song or album was purchased. Two entirely different things.
spliz
SplizThaDon
EXACTLY. shyt is fugazi as fukk. This whole post is how I feel about it. The music industry is literally the ONLY form of entertainment that does that.
MikeStamina
All Star
No receipt No sale
I keep it simple...
Streaming counting as sale will go down as one of the dumbest things invented by human kind
It should be digital n physical copies only
No dumb bundle shyt. No bots
Then come up with a formula to compensate the artist for actual plays through these platforms..
I keep it simple...
Streaming counting as sale will go down as one of the dumbest things invented by human kind
It should be digital n physical copies only
No dumb bundle shyt. No bots
Then come up with a formula to compensate the artist for actual plays through these platforms..
The Dust King
A Childrens Story
i agree reconfigure the sales charts but streams should count as sales
when you paying a recoccuring fee it should count towards something, i didnt have to pay a fee monthly to play tapes.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Nas fans don't stream. I heard they got families and jobs and stuff.Oh so Nas really sold 60k first week
MikeStamina
All Star
Many of us are saying the same thing. Good to know there's still some common sense left..
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
then artists would be forced to stop streaming records, but it's impossible to go back. Music is a uniquely consumed form of entertainment.
Remember the early YouTube days where they couldn't put up a song without it being cleared or if they did the audio would be slowed down or sped up or altered so the user wouldn't get sued? If the stream didn't count as a sale, we'd have to go back to relying on someone stealing a copy from a press plant and leaking it, or a different situation where the album would drop, but it wouldn't be allowed to stream til 2-3 months later so fans would have to buy the record, and even then, the physical stores that sell albums aren't as available.
When did this happen? I can’t find it anywhere RIAA and other sources are still saying 1,500
The Dust King
A Childrens Story
breh your wildly off the path and clearly out the loop
youtube applies by the same rules
i genuinely want to believe but some proof is in order
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
Yeah it has seemed kinda weird how sales have plummeted so much in the past year to the point where folks like Beyonce and Kendrick weren't even clearing 300k.
The fact we still use the "albums sold" metric is so dumb considering how few are bought these days
