@Osterage Howards imagine having streaming services that only works earth, this comment was made by the interplanetary sub-light streaming service 2060s gang
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
@@Bandstand I think just this week I saw you in Billy Cobb and Claire Saffitz, excluding any Fantano content. I draw the line (I don't really know what the line does) at an 8 year old video about Spotify.
Watching in 2018... streaming is the norm, physical copies are dying, Frank Ocean is mainstream, everyone hates Taylor Swift, Donald Trump is the President, people are eating Tide Pods, Anthony is now obsessed with pop culture hit and social media device: memes
someone might not stream an album 100 times in this day in age, but what if streaming services become the main gig, and mp3s are old hat? even then it's a stretch, but if you're a band with 100,000 fans looking to stream your album, you could make a nice buck.
it's possible, because youtube certainly pays people pretty well for the streaming of their content on a regular basis. much better than that spotify is offering artists for 10,000 streams.
There needs to be a healthy balance between purchased and streamed music. People today have got into their minds that the only way you can attain music is by the Internet, for free. That's not true. Go down a music shop, if there's one near you, and appreciate the artist by buying a full album and learn to love every track.
This aged pretty well, streaming took over but physical sales r still doing hella well, especially with vinyl and 💿 in certain genres, yes they aren’t the main form of music consumption but that was already the case when this video was made
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
i am 15 and i use spotify for all of my music listening. i have around 6500 songs in my saved offline playlist, and im subscribed for premium ($10 a month). and i really, really, really wish i could buy music, but with the money im currently making i just cant afford it, so spotify is a better alternative for me as opposed to pirating. .003 cents a listen on spotify is better than nothing if i had pirated it.
+MrLegonator It was totally necessary, his young age indicates that he doesn't have a job or at least doesn't have a job that pays enough for him to buy music. Be considerate before you reply.
Spotify does pay awful rates to artists, but so do labels. Why do you think artists like Death Grips just release their stuff for free? I was talking about this with my friend and the money is in merchandise and touring, which is really unfortunate but that's the reality.
@@abhishektd7068 i think what he want to say is spotify and labels pay so little to none, releasing music for free or releasing music on your own is a much better option than giving easy money to multi millionaire company from your hardwork. Death grips (also swans and king gizzard if i were allowed to add) is an example of band that did fine with releasing music on their own and even making their own label. Plus they have total freedom to make and do whatever the hell they want without intervention
I just recently switched over to Spotify and deleted all my music from iTunes off of my phone in order to clear up room (in general...Spotify doesn't take up an excessive amount of space). I love it! I've found so many new artists that I would never have been exposed to before. The sound quality isn't less than that of iTunes. I can download songs onto my mobile device. I can make playlists and use Spotify's pre-made genre-based playlists to just enjoy as well as to find new artists. I share music with friends easily. It's just amazing! One downside is that the radio service is not as good as Pandora's, often getting stuck on one artist, but the whole experience has been overwhelmingly positive. And the artists I find and enjoy, I don't hesitate to buy their cd's and vinyl records, if they have them. I like supporting those I like to listen to.
i use spotify to listen to and discover music and when i find the music that i like, i will go to the record store and buy a hard copy of that album/EP/single
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
watching this video is amazing in 2021, seeing someone in a completely different culture of music who is now a memer and a streamer and living in a culture where no one buys copies of music anymore, its amazing to see.
I'm a big fan of bandcamp, I was kinda hoping you'd mention it here actually, I'm surprised you didn't! I like that I can just listen to an album in full once or twice, then decide if I want to buy it or not, knowing that the money will go directly to the people who earned it and not a middleman, kinda more guilt free than piracy, even if I'm going to buy the album later.
I think the death of the music industry (in terms of album sales, etc.) is more complicated than just people downloading music. Pirating is one thing. But, in a way, I think the industry shot themselves in the food by being so greedy and charging so much for CDs and other music products. Most people, if having to choose between paying $25 for 12 songs or simply downloading for free... I think chose to download. That's great if you support the artist, but it was tough to justify for many. The fact that they dropped CD prices so late, and were also slow to charge for mp3 downloads, didn't help either.
That is just another false rationalization for the unsustainable internet businesses models controlled by people who for the most part do not give a damn about artists. They only care about advertising revenue so they can sell their businesses to the highest bidder or they are selling the electronic devices used to stream or pirate music. $10 to $20 dollars for a copy of an album by an artist you supposedly love is too much but $500 dollars or more for a new phone and a monthly subscription fee to a service that well respected artists are already pulling their past releases from or refusing to upload new releases to... that's affordable and good value? Which ever way you slice it not compensating artists fairly for their work is disrespecting them (or in the case of piracy it's theft). It's not sustainable in the long term unless everyone is happy with endless streams of manufactured Pop by artists who have not woken up yet or are not in control of their own material. It stifles true creativity and does not support long term development of artists.
McBignLargeBJ64 it's a sign of respect man. you have money, you want music. artist doesn't have the same ability to keep doing what they do if you don't support it. simple as that.
I like streaming music. To me I like listening to a new song maybe a couple of month and then never listen to it again. The idea of buying $1.29 for a song and never listen to it again in the next 8 month to me its a waste of money. If I want to listen to it again maybe in a year then I ll just go on youtube and play it. The world is changing less ppl are willing to pay to listen to music.
***** because it isn't really comparable an artist creates content, and then it changes hands 15 times before it gets to you, with the money, and those 15 people all take some of it on the way back it's really bullshit actually even when you're buying physical copy music streaming is just worse because it's cents
very well put, streaming is the best compromise... and props for the pauls boutique product placement, i'm proud to say that it's one the very smile pile of records i have felt the need to collect the analog artifact
My friends used to make fun of me for having a Zune instead of an iPod but I was paying 10 dollars a month in 2008 to hear all the albums I wanted while they were stuck paying a dollar a song or ripping songs off the internet. The subscription/ad-based model always made sense to me.
Interesting seeing this video years later. Streaming was not going to kill the music industry, but it sure did cause a paradigm shift in the industry I don't think people were expecting. And as far as physical sales go, they're dwindling lol.
I've used last.fm and pandora before. Both are pretty good, but I love how Spotify lets you choose specific tracks to play. I think I'll start using that more now.
I stream mainly because its an easy way to access new music and hear stuff that is recommended to me. Easy way to hear what I want, whenever, especially on a tighter budget. Mainly a preference.
I think streaming is great, it gives me a chance to sample new artist or genres I'd probably never know existed, I'm constantly discovering new favorites that were invisible to me before that I then end up going to see live, or buying merch or cds. Back in the day I was using limewire, and my discoveries on there basically shaped my current taste in music and I was then and am now still buying music physically, except now I can try the album first and have the choice to not buy it before hearing it and fining out it sucks. I do agree that the artists don't get paid enough, but that's been the case for a long time even with physical copy sales, just now the artists music is a thousand times more accessible for new and long time fans alike.
why, do they get paid more or something? if they do, i'm unaware. what about considering that half of the beatles are dead right now. what happens when they all die. should the paygrade to their label still be high?
Well, to be fair, there used to be more music listening booths in stores where you could kind of preview the record. That doesn't exist anymore, so the only option is to blind buy or preview it online somewhere. I don't feel bad when the option isn't there.
I'm a huge supporter of streaming music. I think it's a spectacular alternative to piracy. If you don't have any money, and value music as an art form, streaming is the best option for enjoying music. It's like going to a library, really. You're borrowing the music. I use soundcloud and bandcamp the most, because most of the time, the music is uploaded directly from the artist or record label. I definitely think once I have the money to do so, I'll buy physical copies of the music I stream and merch
Thank you for doing this video. This is a very important issue. Ever since I got Spotify, I almost never pirate music anymore, and I was a nasty pirate. Spotify has the potential to really change and shake up the entire music industry, and that's definitely a good thing. It needs some trial and error, some competition, but eventually, artists will be able to make money with it. We need to allow this change happen and vehemently reject attempts by the government to censor the internet.
Greg Dawe Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh, man. It's cute you still think it's the 1960s. Unless it's a rare shop, where they may have a demo copy of the newest and best, they're not about to open a shrink wrapped record for a *potential* customer.
GayDicks420 I'm sure we're looking at used record here. There's a place in a city near me who lets you listen to CDs and records for a short bit to try them out.
GayDicks420 HAHAHAHAHAH i live next to a record store and they have sample copies of a ton of cd's. Maybe you should get your head out of your ass. You must be a 16 year old.
Please do a question video about vinyl! Everyone clearly sees you have a passion for it. Why did you start collecting it? Why do you prefer it? and how much life vinyl does vinyl have in the midst of mp3 and streaming? what's your preferred music setup?
I have saved so much money since i've joined Rhapsody. They are now up to about 17 million songs, more than any music streaming service. I've found most of my rare music, with outstanding audio quality. Another benefit is that physcial storage is no longer an issue (both digital memory and or vinyl space). What really impresses me now about online streaming, is that they appear to slowly becoming international. Music streaming and companies like netflix are the future.
I love spottily. I was paying the same price for a download site for about a year or so and the decided that I should just do it the legal way by subscribing to spotify. I'd love to see some clarity as to how much artists actually do get paid. Im spending more money on music the legal way now then I would have by just going to a music store.nthough. It also love how I have so much more hard drive space now. I really don't see me ever unsubscribing to spotify in the near future. Thanks for cover
i really like the CD/Vinyl experience! But i understand the appeal of something like spotify but i don't know how is the artist is getting paid! im sure spotify and the labels are getting most of the cake as always! So yeah it does need some working on but its the right way to go
I stream to try out albums that I haven't bought or don't plan to by but want to be educated on. I like Spotify and other similar sites, but I'm still very much into the physical purchase. Hell, I still by CDs on a very regular basis. I like the collecting aspect of it, and I respond to the visual imagery involved. It sets up the mood for its accompanying album I think.
Music (or at least foreign music) is almost inaccessible in Egypt. No Spotify or similar services and very limited music stores. UA-cam streaming and piracy is the only way to access music.
I missed your questions' videos. To be honest, I mainly stream music by using Spotify or YT, but I've got a little cd's discography of my very favorite albums.
Yeah, you can do both, man. What I do is I use Spotify to listen to new albums or even albums I want to try out from the past, and I physically buy what I like. Both ways the industry and the artists benefit from it.
I probably spend way more money on music now, then before Spotify. I'm a premium user who has an office job where I'm buy myself. I listen to a least one new (to me) album a day. This completely opened up my wallet. I go to more shows often being the oldest guy in the room for some of the new indie bands passing through. If I'm at a show, instead of buying a shirt, I often buy the vinyl (I have no evidence but it seems like the artist would get a bigger cut to buy the vinyl this way). Speaking of vinyl, Spotify has expanded my collection and not with just new stuff (next payday I'm getting Suicide's first album). This helps out my local record stores. I still buy cds and downloads. In fact, I would pay 20-25 a month for Spotify.
No not really. There is no real difference between 0 and 10 bucks when the main goal of the stream and the actual product of piracy is advertising. You cheap bastards are just too lazy to go out and buy records or see live shows and are using piracy as an excuse to stream it for free legally.
who wants to buy an album when all I want is to listen to a few songs from it once or twice? Artists make a majority of their money though touring and all that. Streaming gets their music out a wider audience & these people might become new fans and spend $100 on tickets to see em in concert. Seems like a fair trade to me
Nicholas Kanitra First off no bands aside from over hyped over paid pop artists charge '100 dollars' for tickets. I have been going to concerts for the last 10 years and have never paid more than 30 dollars for tickets. 99% of the ticket price goes to the venue. always. The only money bands make from touring are from things they sell at the concerts like tshirts and buttons and what little the producers give them ***IF*** their records are selling. You sound like the typical radio listening dumbass who only likes single tracks that are 'trending' and doesn't give a rats ass about the entire record the artist produces. You don't have the time of the day or the mindset to appreciate an entire record as a whole and just further the financial abuse of the artists by not supporting them in the least passed the entertainment you get form a single song. People like you are the reason non big media artists go on tour and end up making nothing.
Steve Albini once wrote on a internet forum that illegal downloading is harmless to the musician. Basically, the money goes to company owners, lawyers and people involved with the industry, not the art. Also, free download is not a lost sale, but free promotion. Almost universally, bands and musicians are happy anyone is interested in their music enough to become a fan.
I don't think so but if you look at the numbers, depending on which record distribution service an artist or label chooses, the profit is near-negligible (for the artist). The label generally gets about 1.25 per album and the artist gets around 0.10 depending on the contract. Bandcamp, however, takes a flat 10%. It is THE best distribution service for an artist aside from hosting/selling everything yourself.
You might be interested to know that Neil Young is working on a new device called PONO. It will play music of the highest quality, right from the tapes of the recording studio. He is just working on getting the rights from some record companies, you should look it up
I use spotify sometimes, but I must admit I have also illegaly downloaded in my days.. Quite a lot.. It's too bad that spotify (at least in Sweden) seems to be the only viable option for streaming music on your phone. More competition is needed to make justice to the artists! With more options, the artists would be able to fut forward more demands on how much they would get for each listen, since they could otherwise just say that they would go to another company's streaming service.
I use Spotify currently. Being only 10 bucks a month, it saves me a lot of money on CD's, that I can now spend on my new Son. While I really still love the physical product, and love rarities and such, I can't financially think that it makes sense to spend money on a good amount of CD's per week. It'll be Spotify for now. Maybe i'll go back down the road and pick up the discs that I really loved.
i occasionally use Spotify, lastfm, Pandora etc.. And believe me, i would LOVE to see artist making alot more money from these streaming services than they are at the moment, but in the mean time... The best way you can support an artist is to go to their show, buy merch etc. i'm an independent artist myself and i think it would be great for artist to get the money that they deserve for all the work they put into their craft..
I use spotify every now and then, but mostly if I'm checking out an artist for the first time I'll look them up on youtube, decide what I think and then either torrent the album or download a zip/rar file from mediafire or rapidshare. When albums really grab me, I purchase them. Over the last two weeks I bought the remastered version of Botch - We Are the Romans and Sorne - House of Stone on physical CDs
Streaming music seems somewhat complicated because of the fact that we like to have our music (even our mp3s) as possessions (ones that we can burn, put on ipods, use for videos, etc).. It would be cool if some kind of a last.fm scrobbler like thing could be fully integrated into itunes and all other programs, and pay artists based on those plays.. that's not to say at some point there won't be accessible internet everywhere allowing our actual files wherever they are to be streams
I do like Spotify, but I sometimes wish there was a way to give money directly to the band. I might not listen to a band for some time because there is no new material, but that doesn't mean I want them to starve. It would be awesome if you as a paying subscriber could pick your favorite artists and your subscription money would be split between them and maybe as a reward you could see a preview of a new video or listen to a song from an upcoming album.
I don't like streaming music because I tend to spend to much time on the computer while doing so. Listening on my ipod or a CD/Vinyl always seems more fulfilling. Its always nice for discovering new bands and checking if its "worth buying"/.
Spotify is kinda nice. I looked for a band called Monahans and i couldn't find them anywhere. If your asking yourself "Who are the Monahans?" That was my problem exactly. No one knew who they were/are.They don't even have a torrent or something like that. I think it's awesome that Spotify had their music :)
This streaming thing will never catch on
That Damm Bear yeah, I agree. cassette is hot rn anyway, would like to see streaming pass that
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Lol
El oh el
It'll never beat waiting for your favorite song to turn up on radio
Incredible how melon hasn't aged at all... Not a single gray hair in his head.
Not a single hair in his head
@@grrggrrg4805 indeed
he eats healthy foods. key to it all
Did we all get recommended this
@@StatesEdgeRecords yes we did
This video is actually hilarious in 2020.
How life moves along , it’s crazy
This comment is actually hilarious in 2021
@Osterage Howards imagine having streaming services that only works earth, this comment was made by the interplanetary sub-light streaming service 2060s gang
2021 still a good watch
i wonder what will it feel like to watch this video on may 15th 2023
wtf is spotify?
i think its like a pimple cream or something?
New gps to find gold
think it is blues clues 2
I think it's some sort of upcoming artist. Haven't listened to it yet
Never heard of it
Proof that Anthony is the reason why Spotify is successful
Yo we gotta get melon to review ur album, straight 10/10 🔥
Hi PatrickCc
Personally, i dont think this streaming thing will catch on
Spotify is kinda dope. Really sad it didn't work out.
it kinda reminds me of those stupid bitcoins nerds are buying... its just never gonna pop off
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@@izawweb You should probably check when he commented
Anthony in 2012: I wonder if this streaming thing will pick up
Anthony in 2021: I wonder if I will have to rate a literal fetus song negatively
One day fetus pop will catch on, maybe not today, maybe not tommorow, but it is certain it will.
i guess i’ll check out this spotify thing
Master Skywalker? What are we going to do?
@@nathansvarietyhour5188 he killed the younglings 😲
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
@@user-zo5jo3ox5g haha! Lol
Comment about how streaming will never catch on even though it’s the norm in today’s world
Ok will do
You really are everywhere
@@Youcanpokemyballs that means you are too right?!
@@Youcanpokemyballs that’s the 57th time I’ve gotten that today alone. Holy shit this is a record so far
@@Bandstand I think just this week I saw you in Billy Cobb and Claire Saffitz, excluding any Fantano content. I draw the line (I don't really know what the line does) at an 8 year old video about Spotify.
I use Spotify and the amount of new music I've found is unbelievable.
Souless Memelord Gorillaz
found me Iglooghost. new EPs are fuckin fire
@@chrisrosado754 woah, what did I say back then?
@@nekozombie big chungus
Duuuude ikr
Its a blessing
Watching in 2018... streaming is the norm, physical copies are dying, Frank Ocean is mainstream, everyone hates Taylor Swift, Donald Trump is the President, people are eating Tide Pods, Anthony is now obsessed with pop culture hit and social media device: memes
Damn. Time hits hard in retrospective
Physical copies are still a thing, especially with Vinyls and CD's. The hell are you talking about?
in 2020 humanity will die off because of coronavirus
Let's talk about corona time
oh boy just you wait 2 years...
someone might not stream an album 100 times in this day in age, but what if streaming services become the main gig, and mp3s are old hat? even then it's a stretch, but if you're a band with 100,000 fans looking to stream your album, you could make a nice buck.
nah ive streamed blonde 9000 times
Streaming will never catch on
Update melon, mp3s have been vaporized and streaming is king
mp3s are old hat!
This is like a time machine. So cool.
I wish he would revisits this topic.
Guess what. Now he has lol
@@Bernie1714 link to the vid?
@@Bernie1714 link?
@@Bernie1714 link?
@@Bernie1714 link?
it's possible, because youtube certainly pays people pretty well for the streaming of their content on a regular basis. much better than that spotify is offering artists for 10,000 streams.
This comment aged well
Idk man, doesn’t seem like a viable option, it’s going to die off soon
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@@mukhrizmd05 u have frank as your pfp, your virgin comment doesn’t count
I hate that this is still true for Spotify
Something with that logo design just doesn’t sit right with me
fr bruh 💀
Everything lined up and then the O is just.. awful
Looks like it came from about ten years ago back in 2002 or something
@@scopeworth7781 bruh more like 20 years ago sheeeesh 😭
I see Spotify (and youtube) as a godsend for discovering new music. It's good to hear in advance before I buy the record.
This is very funny looking back
youtube algorithm: wanna see young melon talking about spofy?
Can melon ever be called young?
spofy
The algorithm in 2021 loves bringing up old videos
*spoofy
Spofy
YOUNGTHONY YOUNGTANO HERE. INTERNET'S YOUNGEST MUSIC NERD.
There needs to be a healthy balance between purchased and streamed music. People today have got into their minds that the only way you can attain music is by the Internet, for free. That's not true. Go down a music shop, if there's one near you, and appreciate the artist by buying a full album and learn to love every track.
This aged pretty well, streaming took over but physical sales r still doing hella well, especially with vinyl and 💿 in certain genres, yes they aren’t the main form of music consumption but that was already the case when this video was made
Ya, Melon was on the money with this one.
I highly doubt streaming will ever take off, LP's are just far superior. Now if you'd excuse me, I have to find a phone booth to phone my mother.
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
@@user-zo5jo3ox5g Thanks i get that a lot
@@user-zo5jo3ox5g You sound like that "Oh ho-ho!" dude from Family Guy.
hello people who this got recommended to for no reason
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This feels like an Ancient document from a bygone era
It really does a lot of early needledrop vids are like that
i am 15 and i use spotify for all of my music listening. i have around 6500 songs in my saved offline playlist, and im subscribed for premium ($10 a month).
and i really, really, really wish i could buy music, but with the money im currently making i just cant afford it, so spotify is a better alternative for me as opposed to pirating. .003 cents a listen on spotify is better than nothing if i had pirated it.
You are 15? Oh great.... nobody gives a fuck, it was kind of unnecessary.
+MrLegonator It was totally necessary, his young age indicates that he doesn't have a job or at least doesn't have a job that pays enough for him to buy music. Be considerate before you reply.
Nice one, dude.
Two Scoops Thanks, I tried.
+Lobster Gang agreed, spotify it's like the steam or the netflix of the music market...
Spotify does pay awful rates to artists, but so do labels. Why do you think artists like Death Grips just release their stuff for free?
I was talking about this with my friend and the money is in merchandise and touring, which is really unfortunate but that's the reality.
I don't think anything Death Grips does is fueled by the money they make
@@abhishektd7068
i think what he want to say is spotify and labels pay so little to none, releasing music for free or releasing music on your own is a much better option than giving easy money to multi millionaire company from your hardwork.
Death grips (also swans and king gizzard if i were allowed to add) is an example of band that did fine with releasing music on their own and even making their own label. Plus they have total freedom to make and do whatever the hell they want without intervention
@@thepopgroup3366 bro he said that 2 years ago
@@olipxe To be fair Abhishek's reply to the first guy took even longer. I'm sure someone will reply to this in a couple years and keep it going.
@@matthewchampion8214 shit i came 3 years too early, i guess the next guy would do it justice.
The algorithm is getting weirder
I just recently switched over to Spotify and deleted all my music from iTunes off of my phone in order to clear up room (in general...Spotify doesn't take up an excessive amount of space). I love it! I've found so many new artists that I would never have been exposed to before. The sound quality isn't less than that of iTunes. I can download songs onto my mobile device. I can make playlists and use Spotify's pre-made genre-based playlists to just enjoy as well as to find new artists. I share music with friends easily. It's just amazing! One downside is that the radio service is not as good as Pandora's, often getting stuck on one artist, but the whole experience has been overwhelmingly positive.
And the artists I find and enjoy, I don't hesitate to buy their cd's and vinyl records, if they have them. I like supporting those I like to listen to.
Watching this on 2017 is HILARIOUS !
staindman00 For real. Streaming saved the music industry
When he said grooveshark I lol'd
Even better in 2020
@@StrawberriPoison lol, just about to say the same thing, it will only get funnier as time goes on
Watching this on 2021 is HILARIOUS !
i use spotify to listen to and discover music and when i find the music that i like, i will go to the record store and buy a hard copy of that album/EP/single
Spotify? What's that? Glad that never took off
Comedy
Haha omg this is a hilarious comment. Why it’s funny: it’s obvious that the commenter already knows what Spotify is and probably has one his or herself, given that the comment is from 2021. The joke is, this video from 2012 is about whether or not Spotify will catch on or not, and now that we are in 2021, we KNOW that it does! Hence why this original joke is so hilarious, my sides hurt from laughing at it!
@@user-zo5jo3ox5g I get the joke isn't that good but was That Your attempt at a joke?
"a solution to getting artists paid" oh boy, we were so naive
Listening to music? On the computer? I don't see that catching on. It's a passing fad.
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“Anthony Fantano.
Music Streaming.
Forever.”
A truer forever has never been spoken
watching this video is amazing in 2021, seeing someone in a completely different culture of music who is now a memer and a streamer and living in a culture where no one buys copies of music anymore, its amazing to see.
I'm a big fan of bandcamp, I was kinda hoping you'd mention it here actually, I'm surprised you didn't! I like that I can just listen to an album in full once or twice, then decide if I want to buy it or not, knowing that the money will go directly to the people who earned it and not a middleman, kinda more guilt free than piracy, even if I'm going to buy the album later.
I think the death of the music industry (in terms of album sales, etc.) is more complicated than just people downloading music. Pirating is one thing. But, in a way, I think the industry shot themselves in the food by being so greedy and charging so much for CDs and other music products. Most people, if having to choose between paying $25 for 12 songs or simply downloading for free... I think chose to download. That's great if you support the artist, but it was tough to justify for many. The fact that they dropped CD prices so late, and were also slow to charge for mp3 downloads, didn't help either.
The last album I bought, ironically titled, was Endgame by Megadeth. An appropriate title for the situation, I'd say.
this aint 1995, albums haven't been $25 in a longtime. most physical copies are $9.99-$12.99.
Yes, I was referring to that era. Before they started dropping the CD prices.
That is just another false rationalization for the unsustainable internet businesses models controlled by people who for the most part do not give a damn about artists. They only care about advertising revenue so they can sell their businesses to the highest bidder or they are selling the electronic devices used to stream or pirate music. $10 to $20 dollars for a copy of an album by an artist you supposedly love is too much but $500 dollars or more for a new phone and a monthly subscription fee to a service that well respected artists are already pulling their past releases from or refusing to upload new releases to... that's affordable and good value? Which ever way you slice it not compensating artists fairly for their work is disrespecting them (or in the case of piracy it's theft). It's not sustainable in the long term unless everyone is happy with endless streams of manufactured Pop by artists who have not woken up yet or are not in control of their own material. It stifles true creativity and does not support long term development of artists.
Lol albums are like 7$
dang, man. sorry about that! hopefully, it's available soon!
Yeah hopefully 🙏
yes please im waiting
It’s okay melon
i prefer buying music in physical copy if i like the album enough to buy it, i feel dirty if i don't buy music that i listen to a lot
Out of respect for certain artists I love/like, Ill buy their work on physical copies. Only of course If I thoroughly enjoy/listen to their work.
McBignLargeBJ64 it's a sign of respect man. you have money, you want music. artist doesn't have the same ability to keep doing what they do if you don't support it. simple as that.
I like streaming music. To me I like listening to a new song maybe a couple of month and then never listen to it again. The idea of buying $1.29 for a song and never listen to it again in the next 8 month to me its a waste of money. If I want to listen to it again maybe in a year then I ll just go on youtube and play it. The world is changing less ppl are willing to pay to listen to music.
***** because it isn't really comparable
an artist creates content, and then it changes hands 15 times before it gets to you, with the money, and those 15 people all take some of it on the way back
it's really bullshit actually
even when you're buying physical copy music
streaming is just worse because it's cents
+Zachery Santa I feel the same way.
very well put, streaming is the best compromise... and props for the pauls boutique product placement, i'm proud to say that it's one the very smile pile of records i have felt the need to collect the analog artifact
2012: Spotify is the future of the industry
2021: Spotify is the the root of all evil
Huh? Spotify has asserted themselves as the only place any would go to for music now
@@gabrielrjb as opposed to what alternative? Apple Music? Spotify definitely isn't perfect but we could be doing a lot worse
My friends used to make fun of me for having a Zune instead of an iPod but I was paying 10 dollars a month in 2008 to hear all the albums I wanted while they were stuck paying a dollar a song or ripping songs off the internet. The subscription/ad-based model always made sense to me.
Interesting seeing this video years later. Streaming was not going to kill the music industry, but it sure did cause a paradigm shift in the industry I don't think people were expecting. And as far as physical sales go, they're dwindling lol.
how does that work?
Yes
Yo mama
I have no idea
lol. look, make the musical, then i'll review it. we'll see.
They make that musical yet?
Xd
Anthony, ur scaring me who are u talking too
Anthony I cannot write musicals sorry
There's only 4 comments gheee
I've used last.fm and pandora before. Both are pretty good, but I love how Spotify lets you choose specific tracks to play. I think I'll start using that more now.
this comment is extremely hilarious
I stream mainly because its an easy way to access new music and hear stuff that is recommended to me. Easy way to hear what I want, whenever, especially on a tighter budget. Mainly a preference.
“I doubt it’ll take over physical copies” 😂
why does he look like hes in an episode of icarly
I think streaming is great, it gives me a chance to sample new artist or genres I'd probably never know existed, I'm constantly discovering new favorites that were invisible to me before that I then end up going to see live, or buying merch or cds. Back in the day I was using limewire, and my discoveries on there basically shaped my current taste in music and I was then and am now still buying music physically, except now I can try the album first and have the choice to not buy it before hearing it and fining out it sucks. I do agree that the artists don't get paid enough, but that's been the case for a long time even with physical copy sales, just now the artists music is a thousand times more accessible for new and long time fans alike.
how far would it have to drop?
10 feet
@@olipxe did u jusy say feet ? 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
@@tanayyy2875 bro ?
why, do they get paid more or something? if they do, i'm unaware. what about considering that half of the beatles are dead right now. what happens when they all die. should the paygrade to their label still be high?
i have. :-)
Have what melon HAVE WHAT ???
Well, to be fair, there used to be more music listening booths in stores where you could kind of preview the record.
That doesn't exist anymore, so the only option is to blind buy or preview it online somewhere. I don't feel bad when the option isn't there.
***** They were at their height in the 1960s, so no.
Jeez was Spotify’s logo really like that back in the day? I always assumed it was the same as it is now, weird.
I'm a huge supporter of streaming music. I think it's a spectacular alternative to piracy. If you don't have any money, and value music as an art form, streaming is the best option for enjoying music. It's like going to a library, really. You're borrowing the music. I use soundcloud and bandcamp the most, because most of the time, the music is uploaded directly from the artist or record label. I definitely think once I have the money to do so, I'll buy physical copies of the music I stream and merch
Thank you for doing this video. This is a very important issue. Ever since I got Spotify, I almost never pirate music anymore, and I was a nasty pirate. Spotify has the potential to really change and shake up the entire music industry, and that's definitely a good thing. It needs some trial and error, some competition, but eventually, artists will be able to make money with it. We need to allow this change happen and vehemently reject attempts by the government to censor the internet.
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@@LunarMoth 💀💀
I still prefer having a physical copy, although online streaming and mp3's have their uses.
+Thomas Kittock Which is why I love that most records I buy come with a download code.
"I love that i can listen to music before I buy it" go to a record store(if you can) they'll let you listen.
Greg Dawe Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh, man. It's cute you still think it's the 1960s.
Unless it's a rare shop, where they may have a demo copy of the newest and best, they're not about to open a shrink wrapped record for a *potential* customer.
GayDicks420 I'm sure we're looking at used record here. There's a place in a city near me who lets you listen to CDs and records for a short bit to try them out.
GayDicks420 HAHAHAHAHAH i live next to a record store and they have sample copies of a ton of cd's. Maybe you should get your head out of your ass. You must be a 16 year old.
Oh, Melon. You are so young and innocent.
not hiding at all! :-D
Hey bestie ❤️
maybe you should be
couldn't music be merch?
Dont do this to me
No you dumbass
Please do a question video about vinyl! Everyone clearly sees you have a passion for it.
Why did you start collecting it?
Why do you prefer it? and how much life vinyl does vinyl have in the midst of mp3 and streaming?
what's your preferred music setup?
nah i dont think streaming will ever catch on
fr tho, crazy how Spotify is now just the norm, while I haven't heard of Pandora in years.
I have saved so much money since i've joined Rhapsody. They are now up to about 17 million songs, more than any music streaming service. I've found most of my rare music, with outstanding audio quality. Another benefit is that physcial storage is no longer an issue (both digital memory and or vinyl space). What really impresses me now about online streaming, is that they appear to slowly becoming international. Music streaming and companies like netflix are the future.
so happy I got this in my recommended, this is hilarious
I love spottily. I was paying the same price for a download site for about a year or so and the decided that I should just do it the legal way by subscribing to spotify. I'd love to see some clarity as to how much artists actually do get paid. Im spending more money on music the legal way now then I would have by just going to a music store.nthough. It also love how I have so much more hard drive space now. I really don't see me ever unsubscribing to spotify in the near future. Thanks for cover
i really like the CD/Vinyl experience! But i understand the appeal of something like spotify but i don't know how is the artist is getting paid! im sure spotify and the labels are getting most of the cake as always! So yeah it does need some working on but its the right way to go
I stream to try out albums that I haven't bought or don't plan to by but want to be educated on. I like Spotify and other similar sites, but I'm still very much into the physical purchase. Hell, I still by CDs on a very regular basis. I like the collecting aspect of it, and I respond to the visual imagery involved. It sets up the mood for its accompanying album I think.
Music (or at least foreign music) is almost inaccessible in Egypt. No Spotify or similar services and very limited music stores. UA-cam streaming and piracy is the only way to access music.
I missed your questions' videos. To be honest, I mainly stream music by using Spotify or YT, but I've got a little cd's discography of my very favorite albums.
Groove shark 🐠
Yeah, you can do both, man. What I do is I use Spotify to listen to new albums or even albums I want to try out from the past, and I physically buy what I like. Both ways the industry and the artists benefit from it.
I use them. A lot of the albums coming down the pipe don't have enough "good" songs to justify me buying the CD.
Shut Up Dale...
I probably spend way more money on music now, then before Spotify. I'm a premium user who has an office job where I'm buy myself. I listen to a least one new (to me) album a day. This completely opened up my wallet. I go to more shows often being the oldest guy in the room for some of the new indie bands passing through. If I'm at a show, instead of buying a shirt, I often buy the vinyl (I have no evidence but it seems like the artist would get a bigger cut to buy the vinyl this way). Speaking of vinyl, Spotify has expanded my collection and not with just new stuff (next payday I'm getting Suicide's first album). This helps out my local record stores. I still buy cds and downloads. In fact, I would pay 20-25 a month for Spotify.
$10 for every 100000 streams is still way better than $0 due to piracy and illegal downloads
No not really. There is no real difference between 0 and 10 bucks when the main goal of the stream and the actual product of piracy is advertising. You cheap bastards are just too lazy to go out and buy records or see live shows and are using piracy as an excuse to stream it for free legally.
who wants to buy an album when all I want is to listen to a few songs from it once or twice? Artists make a majority of their money though touring and all that. Streaming gets their music out a wider audience & these people might become new fans and spend $100 on tickets to see em in concert. Seems like a fair trade to me
Nicholas Kanitra First off no bands aside from over hyped over paid pop artists charge '100 dollars' for tickets. I have been going to concerts for the last 10 years and have never paid more than 30 dollars for tickets. 99% of the ticket price goes to the venue. always. The only money bands make from touring are from things they sell at the concerts like tshirts and buttons and what little the producers give them ***IF*** their records are selling.
You sound like the typical radio listening dumbass who only likes single tracks that are 'trending' and doesn't give a rats ass about the entire record the artist produces. You don't have the time of the day or the mindset to appreciate an entire record as a whole and just further the financial abuse of the artists by not supporting them in the least passed the entertainment you get form a single song. People like you are the reason non big media artists go on tour and end up making nothing.
GOSH.. you're mean :( music snob much? it's not that serious
Nicholas Kanitra Yea I am mean. But at least I take the time to appreciate and invest in the artists I enjoy rather than use them like doormats.
Steve Albini once wrote on a internet forum that illegal downloading is harmless to the musician. Basically, the money goes to company owners, lawyers and people involved with the industry, not the art. Also, free download is not a lost sale, but free promotion. Almost universally, bands and musicians are happy anyone is interested in their music enough to become a fan.
I don’t see this catching on tbh
I don't think so but if you look at the numbers, depending on which record distribution service an artist or label chooses, the profit is near-negligible (for the artist). The label generally gets about 1.25 per album and the artist gets around 0.10 depending on the contract.
Bandcamp, however, takes a flat 10%. It is THE best distribution service for an artist aside from hosting/selling everything yourself.
Holy fuck I totally forgot about grooveshark, wow
You might be interested to know that Neil Young is working on a new device called PONO. It will play music of the highest quality, right from the tapes of the recording studio. He is just working on getting the rights from some record companies, you should look it up
I'm a busier music nerd. So busy that I don't have time to make videos about them
But how do you feel about death grips?
I use spotify sometimes, but I must admit I have also illegaly downloaded in my days.. Quite a lot.. It's too bad that spotify (at least in Sweden) seems to be the only viable option for streaming music on your phone. More competition is needed to make justice to the artists! With more options, the artists would be able to fut forward more demands on how much they would get for each listen, since they could otherwise just say that they would go to another company's streaming service.
Its been a decade why am i being recommended this shit
I use Spotify currently. Being only 10 bucks a month, it saves me a lot of money on CD's, that I can now spend on my new Son. While I really still love the physical product, and love rarities and such, I can't financially think that it makes sense to spend money on a good amount of CD's per week. It'll be Spotify for now. Maybe i'll go back down the road and pick up the discs that I really loved.
Little did he know...
i occasionally use Spotify, lastfm, Pandora etc.. And believe me, i would LOVE to see artist making alot more money from these streaming services than they are at the moment, but in the mean time... The best way you can support an artist is to go to their show, buy merch etc. i'm an independent artist myself and i think it would be great for artist to get the money that they deserve for all the work they put into their craft..
spoiler alert, yes
-2017
I use spotify every now and then, but mostly if I'm checking out an artist for the first time I'll look them up on youtube, decide what I think and then either torrent the album or download a zip/rar file from mediafire or rapidshare.
When albums really grab me, I purchase them. Over the last two weeks I bought the remastered version of Botch - We Are the Romans and Sorne - House of Stone on physical CDs
And now he reviews everything with Apple Music. How the times have changed!
He still uses spotify when he streams sometimes like new music Friday
Streaming music seems somewhat complicated because of the fact that we like to have our music (even our mp3s) as possessions (ones that we can burn, put on ipods, use for videos, etc).. It would be cool if some kind of a last.fm scrobbler like thing could be fully integrated into itunes and all other programs, and pay artists based on those plays.. that's not to say at some point there won't be accessible internet everywhere allowing our actual files wherever they are to be streams
Ah yes, Groove Shark, one of Spotify’s biggest competitors
I do like Spotify, but I sometimes wish there was a way to give money directly to the band. I might not listen to a band for some time because there is no new material, but that doesn't mean I want them to starve. It would be awesome if you as a paying subscriber could pick your favorite artists and your subscription money would be split between them and maybe as a reward you could see a preview of a new video or listen to a song from an upcoming album.
Watching this in 2020 is very odd
Looking back. When i didnt have the money, I would just stream the songs on UA-cam. So now Ive found great use in Soundcloud and Apple Music
Good stuff Ant. Can I call you Ant? I feel like calling you Ant.
Ant.
No. No you cannot.
I don't like streaming music because I tend to spend to much time on the computer while doing so. Listening on my ipod or a CD/Vinyl always seems more fulfilling. Its always nice for discovering new bands and checking if its "worth buying"/.
I'd use Spotify a lot more if it provided lossless audio.
It does now
@@Jack-zj1ug can’t find any info on that, have you got a link?
Spotify is kinda nice. I looked for a band called Monahans and i couldn't find them anywhere. If your asking yourself "Who are the Monahans?" That was my problem exactly. No one knew who they were/are.They don't even have a torrent or something like that. I think it's awesome that Spotify had their music :)
Im not telling you guys what i use. Music industry is gonna ruin it for us anyway they can.
geez
Ooh, intriguing!
Walter Kovacs haha. You suckas
So, did it work?
I think this is your best topic discussion. Very good ideas man.