“Apple Inc. is seeking to reduce record labels’ share of revenue from streaming, part of negotiations to revise the iPhone maker’s overall relationship with the music industry, according to people familiar with the matter,” Lucas Shaw and Alex Webb report for Bloomberg.
“The talks cover Apple’s agreements for Apple Music, the two-year-old streaming service offering millions of songs on demand, and iTunes, the store where people can buy individual songs or albums,” Shaw and Webb report. “The record labels’ deals with Apple expire at the end of June, though they are likely to be extended if the parties can’t agree on new terms by then, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.”
“Under Apple’s current deal, record labels at first received about 58 percent of revenue from Apple Music subscribers, a higher cut than from other major streaming services including Spotify,” Shaw and Webb report. “Spotify reduced its rate to 52 percent from 55 percent in recent negotiations with labels, tied to certain guarantees on subscriber growth. The labels are open to a reduction in Apple’s rate — provided it’s also able to expand subscriber rolls and meet other requirements, the people said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple should get a better rate than Spotify simply because Apple product users offer the music industry entry into a significantly richer demographic who are easily more likely to go on to buy music, merch, and concert tickets.
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what a BS mdn take.
Oh, because Apple Music is “exposure”. Those musicians should hold out for the highest rates if that’s the entitled and arrogant view Apple takes.
It’s Labels, not Musicians. With few (high profile) exceptions, the people who make the music get crumbs compared to what he labels get.
Fallacious nonsense from entitled and greedy techies.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/prince-warns-young-artists-record-contracts-are-slavery-20150809
And your argument is what? We’ll pay less than Spotify! Gtfo you arrogant c–t.
Streaming waste of money.
Well, the music industry is saved by the tech industry.
They can now lean back, put their feet on the desk and watch the numbers get in. Like the good old days of vinyl and CD.
What a spoiled industry.
I wonder if artists really get to see the money they really earn?
Cause you know, this data could all be sorted out… But that is another debate…
Lower the margin because it will be the tech industry who will develop other ways to consume music and maintain it…
How about 50/50. Because you know Youtuber steal music and Gaagle doesn’t do enough about it. In fact, the music industry should bring Gaagle to court with all that money… But that is another debate…
Gesh… What a debate!
As a full time musician, mdn’s response is complete bullshit. Less money is less money. You start talking that exposure shit to anyone in this business and like me, they will call you out on it.
Know what your talking about before you start talking. It’s not personal man, this is a sensitive subject.