celeb news Tracy Chapman refuses to stream music: "Artists get paid when you buy CD or Vinyl"

[K$Ellie]

you can support the artist by buying the cd/vinyl but they're not getting any more money from you actually listening to it…

just stream the album after buying it

 

[JO1s]

I mean, you can do both 

[Katamari]

Cmon sapphic Luddite queen  

[The7thStranger]

53 minutes ago, Almighty Gaga said:

Rich ass millionaire thinks everyone has $30 to spare on a vinyl for each album they want to listen to.

Go back and read it again.

[Trent W]

Artists should get together and start pulling off music from Spotify, it's the only way more fans will buy physical albums

 

I wouldn't have a problem going back to that as a fan, the feeling of getting the album on the date was magic

 

Now it's just waiting for a Thursday into the midnight through Friday for spotify to make it public

 

Is just not the same anymore

[Wicked]

I stream and buy the CD of albums I like.

 

But I'm an audiophile of sorts,and 9/10 times when it comes to streaming, the version of albums pre-21st century that are on DSPs are not the best sounding version.

 

So I got a digital audio player so I can play my CD rips on the go and still stream otherwise. I get what she means but there's better ways to materially support a musician now.

 

 

[jezebelvictoria]

I don't really care. These people quite clearly have enough money regardless. I'm a poor person who's envious of rich people and will never be a rich person. So guess what… I. DONT. F*CKING. CARE. 

[Vixen Eyes]

1 hour ago, Squall said:

Do they get paid when you play the CD? Buy the album and then stream it instead of releasing tone-deaf statements like this one.

each like what 10 streams is less than 1 penny lol

[americanlife]

She's right, artists make much more from a purchased copy than a streamed copy.

[Daddy]

That's why, this week, I bought the 35th anniversary repress of her self-titled album in 3 different variants. Timeless classic finally back on wax!

[Mr. Blue_Shirt]

Tracy: "I don't stream music. I only buy music in physical form"

 

ATRLers: "Oh so NOW you want us to stop streaming music?!"

 

[moonllum]

She is right but it's a losing battle. 

 

Also for someone who is interested in discover music all the time, the streaming is a blessing. It's wrong if we talk about morals but in my personal experience, like I said, it's a blessing, I can't buy all the albums I want and I'm melomaniac, so sorry Tracy. 

[SLIME]

If you only listen to celebrities it's whatever. When you get more involved with local artists, maybe ones you know, or musicians who might struggle, it's something to think about.

[KaledKalil]

The problem is not streaming vs physical, but rather streaming vs illegally downloading. No one is buying albums except die hard fans and older people, if streaming wasn't around anymore, people would go back to downloading albums, that's simple.

 

[JustHoran]

She's 100% right 

 

I do both though. I will buy my favorites albums on vinyl and CD, and I'll also stream there music. That's the best way to go if you really wanna support an artist and there album.

[Happylittlepunk]

Good thing I bought all those physical Kesha and Gaga albums recently then. 

[Vrx.]

Streaming quality literally sounds like ass compared to physicals idk why anyone does it 

[MatiRod]

5 hours ago, Uncatena said:

???? you'd have to stream an album about 150 to 200 times to offset the sale of a CD

You would have to stream songs from the album over 3,500 times on Spotify (about half as much on Apple Music) to make the same $ as a CD. 

[RLO]

She's got a point. But still buy the CD and stream the music. 

[Gossip_Boy]

Jokes on you. I love having my favorite artists' music a touch away. I still buy records of my favorite artists/albums too. Best of both worlds.
 

The old system of having to shell out twenty bucks at a time and buy a whole cd for one or maybe two good songs just because you liked the promoted single you heard on the radio was terrible for the consumer.

 

And as someone who listens to a very wide range of artists/genres it's not realistic to just buy everything. I get where she's coming from as an artist tho.

Edited 5 hours ago by Gossip_Boy

[Luckitty]

streaming makes discovering new music so easy, there are so many artists and songs that i would've never found without streaming

[anastaciabby]

7 hours ago, Bussea said:

She's correct but watch gay men who love being contrarians for the sake of being contrarians twist what she's saying and disagree as if she's not in the music industry and have knowledge on this subject firsthand. 

Fr and she's right 

The fact some are straight up attacking an 80 year old woman like? Of course she's going to have a less "modern" opinion on music, have some nuance

[Pop Life]

The payout for streaming is abysmal, especially for smaller acts. They pay less than a penny per stream. A penny is so little you wouldn't even bother to pick it up if you saw one on the sidewalk. It's grotesque.

 

But audiences don't care because now they don't have to go to their record store and drop $15/20 every time they want to hear something new. Even with the degraded audio quality they have millions of songs at their fingertips. I feel like the iTunes era was the best of both worlds, but that was the time of peak piracy so idk

Edited 4 hours ago by Pop Life

[Galaxy]

16 minutes ago, anastaciabby said:

The fact some are straight up attacking an 80 year old woman

Girl, she's 61

 

[VibraniumHarmony]

I understand where she's coming from, but I stream music to save money. Yes, I'd love to see artists get paid and compensated more for their output—but, for all of the music I listen to, it's just not financially feasible to pay for each individual album. I'd have spent over $100 within the last two days alone just on music, if I paid for each individual album I listened to.

 

I stopped buying albums, at large, towards the end of 2019 when one of my now former coworkers shamed me good for still buying albums. He looked at me as if I were stupid for spending all of that money on music, saying I could just subscribe to a streaming service, which I did almost directly after that conversation. Since then I've only bought, maybe, 15 albums—imported ones that aren't available on streaming services or digital download.