Well 90% was exaggerating but

 

“In January 2018, the company reported over 70 million paid subscribers worldwide. As such, subscribers account for less than half of Spotify's user base of 159 million monthly active users.”

 

That's overall. I'm willing to bet the % of paid users in the UK is much higher than in most other countries. Especially because the UK is one of the countries where Spotify is actually making a decent profit.

 

Yeah but if more artists do this and it proves successful I think more will be more likely to become paid for streams

APESHIT is #2 on Apple Music, so I think theres's a mistake on Spotify.

It's worth considering that Apple Music is entirely subscription based though. I don't think it's any kind of mistake, it's just the fact that it's premium-only. I assume it'll climb today as awareness of its Spotify release grows but there's only so high it'll go until it's available fully on Spotify (and on some playlists too).

Apparently they overturned it June 1st after the ceo of his label threatened to pull all their artists from spotify

 

Oh I know, but even then it's just ~interesting~ to note how quickly they've gone from banning him to making him the active focal point of one of their biggest playlists (as opposed to just quietly adding his music back to the playlists).

Great to see Three Lions so high! I hope it can enter the Top 40 this week.

Imagine being in your late 30s, trying to rap over some dated, shitty beat that Migos left unused. This is a woman that constantly gets compared to MJ, Prince and Tina Turner. :lol:

 

Imagine being in your late 30s, trying to rap over some dated, shitty beat that Migos left unused. This is a woman that constantly gets compared to MJ, Prince and Tina Turner. :lol:

Yeah that's my issue with the album, I love her and she's cemented herself as a true artist with Lemonade and her self-titled in which she experimented and slayed so many styles, but this is such a step back :/ It's almost trend-chasing which is something she hasn't done for the best part of a decade. I suppose it's more of a side album though so I'm not *too* worried, it's just disappointing when you hear Lemonade and think what we could have had following on from that.

Oh I know, but even then it's just ~interesting~ to note how quickly they've gone from banning him to making him the active focal point of one of their biggest playlists (as opposed to just quietly adding his music back to the playlists).

Yeah, clearly their demand for profit/maintaining their place in the market is more important than their own ethical values in this case.

 

Spotify have put themselves in a position where they will get slated one way or another (as if they didn’t do anything considering the guy has died, the fans would be ripping into them). Apple were wise to keep silent on the whole matter

Imagine being in your late 30s, trying to rap over some dated, shitty beat that Migos left unused. This is a woman that constantly gets compared to MJ, Prince and Tina Turner. :lol:

 

Let's see...

 

When MJ was 36 he recorded History, couple of years later Blood on the Dance Floor and then 4 years later Invincible. Not necessarily his best work

 

When Prince was 36 he recorded I don't even know what, maybe Come? That was a mega success, wasn't it

 

I think she's on par with those

Yeah that's my issue with the album, I love her and she's cemented herself as a true artist with Lemonade and her self-titled in which she experimented and slayed so many styles, but this is such a step back :/ It's almost trend-chasing which is something she hasn't done for the best part of a decade. I suppose it's more of a side album though so I'm not *too* worried, it's just disappointing when you hear Lemonade and think what we could have had following on from that.

 

Lemonade and Self-Titled are solid and listenable albums, but they're trend-chasing too. And they're definitely not classics.

 

I'm still waiting for Beyonce to release something that can justify her enormous hype.

 

Kid Rock wasn't wrong when he said that Beyonce doesn't have Purple Rain, but the media makes her to be the biggest thing on earth.

Kid Rock wasn't wrong when he said that Beyonce doesn't have Purple Rain, but the media makes her to be the biggest thing on earth.

 

:blink:

 

:D

Edited June 19, 20187 yr by SKOB

Lemonade and Self-Titled are solid and listenable albums, but they're trend-chasing too. And they're definitely not classics.

 

I'm still waiting for Beyonce to release something that can justify her enormous hype.

 

Kid Rock wasn't wrong when he said that Beyonce doesn't have Purple Rain, but the media makes her to be the biggest thing on earth.

 

Lemonade is a career-defining album. You can pretend otherwise.

 

Imagine not understanding the hype around Beyoncé just two months after that Coachella performance.

Yeah, I would say those two albums have been career defining for her. She has enough huge singles prior to those to cement her legacy as a singles artist. Those two albums gave her credibility to build a cohesive album, wheras her previous ones came across more as a collection of singles.

Lemonade is Beyoncé’s best album

 

Fact.

:blink:

 

:D

 

I did LOL at that one too. :lol:

OneRepublic ft. Logic is up to #135, I can see this being a Top 20 hit at least if it gets good support.

They literally can't. A huge percentage use the mobile app, and you can't search for and play songs. You can't skip either. The only option is to shuffle playlists.

 

Surely listening to random songs from playlists would give a result similar to what the Spotify top 50 is anyway? It seems to me the Spotify charts are heavily influenced by playlists. (Note that I said "similar", not "identical").

 

However, what I really meant was the music, rather than individual songs. Someone said that they think the quality of music would be better if they excluded the free users, which I think is unlikely. For example it might be reasonable to think that adult contemporary or alternative/indie songs might do a lot better if you only look at the paid streams, but I don't think that will happen because the Apple Music chart is similar to the Spotify chart and if I understand correctly everybody who uses Apple Music has to pay (you can't use it for free). I don't think it would make a huge difference to be honest.

Edited June 20, 20187 yr by Eric_Blob

I suspect if you took away the streams by free users, the chart would not look a whole lot different except for the figures obviously being a lot lower. Free streams counting to the chart isn't really something worth fussing over, though I do think a premium stream should count for more than a free stream.

XXXTENTACION taking over the chart! :o Entire Top 3!

free spotify on the computer is ok, same features as premium

but free on the phone shouldn't count for the chart, you cannot search songs, choose songs,

for me thats almost like listening to the radio, just waiting for your fav songs to randomly show up

definitely free spotify on the phone shouldn't count for the charts or at least count less