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The thing is, Taylor's version sounds completely different. Did Ben Thompson actually look at streaming numbers? All her fans didn't flock to the new version. T
by kin 5y ago
The thing is, Taylor's version sounds completely different. Did Ben Thompson actually look at streaming numbers? All her fans didn't flock to the new version. They listened to it, but it's so different that the old version is still consistently streamed likely by the same fans.
Further, the new version isn't on some new platform or anything. It's not like Taylor Swift asked fans to fork extra money to listen to "Taylor's version" so nothing is really proven here regarding Taylor's so called power. In terms of accessibility, the tracks exist side by side with the original on Spotify.
The idea of NFTs is incredibly appealing to artists because the technology could allow for artists to sell music that can only be played by some client if the NFT for a track or album was authentic. Ultimately this is bad for consumers and you bet your bottom dollar that some new form of music piracy will be born if music tried to go this direction.
- exolymph 5y agoThe new Fearless just dropped, it's not like the streaming numbers are going to equalize overnight. Can you link the data? Sounds like it's interesting
- Hasz 5y agoI just spent a few minutes looking for data, expecting something like a stock chart. I can't find almost anything -- even total stream numbers for an album or song are difficult to find. If you have a good source, I'm very interested.
- cbowal 5y agoThe Spotify app shows play counts. I'm seeing, for example, 433M plays of "Love Story" and 65M plays of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)". Considering that it was released only 3 days ago it seems like the number of plays for the "(Taylor's Version)" is quite incredible.
- Hasz 5y agoAh, I only use open.spotify.com. Still, without scraping it/api access, there's no way to see a distribution AFAIK.
- valzam 5y agoSo basically we are reinventing DRM but call it NFTs now because...blockchain?
- 6nf 5y ago> The idea of NFTs is incredibly appealing to artists because the technology could allow for artists to sell music that can only be played by some client if the NFT for a track or album was authentic. That's nonsense. DRM is just DRM and there's no way to stop piracy. If one person can listen to the track, that person can copy the track end of story.