Tom Conrad

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

5/ Apple isn't getting rid of its long free trial, but is now going to pay artists. This simply puts it at parity with all other players.

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

6/ Reminder: Apple uses music to make billions off hardware. Artists see nothing from this.

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

7/ Swift's letter and Apple's response is mostly theater. Nothing here to suggest Apple treats artists more fairly than anyone else.

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

8/ My point is this: there is too much animus between artists & Silicon Valley. We shouldn't herald this move as progress. It's status quo.

Judee Flick ‏@judeeflick Jun 22

@tconrad <Not "status quo" >artist that were NOT going to be paid for the first 3 months of Apple Music will now receive payments.TY TaylorS

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

@judeeflick no reluctance to applaud Swift for what she did. My point is that Apple isn't an artist hero for doing what everyone else does.

Judee Flick ‏@judeeflick Jun 22

@tconrad <I applaud Apple for recognizing the power of @taylorswift13 and the PR nightmare they were about to face.

lol Tolhurst ‏@LolTolhurst Jun 22

@tconrad Not True Tom!! radio stations pay BMI ( to pay artists) in fees per listener performance approximately twice what Pandora does!

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

@LolTolhurst Both pay a percentage of revenue. Pandora a higher percentage. As Pandora revenues grow they will pay more than terrestrial.

lol Tolhurst ‏@LolTolhurst Jun 22

@tconrad I will believe that when I see it! Meanwhile young artists are struggling on the crumbs given them whilst " Revenues Grow"!

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

@LolTolhurst this hard 140 characters at a time. I suspect you and I share more common ground than it appears.

lol Tolhurst ‏@LolTolhurst Jun 22

@tconrad Indeed!It just matters to me that new artists especially are not squeezed out of the equation by someone elses" business model!"

Scott ‏@sgordon70 Jun 22

@tconrad @om but they tie into BMI that DOES pay the song writer. She writes most of her own stuffs.

Tom Conrad ‏@tconrad Jun 22

@sgordon70 @om correct, but Apple, Pandora, Spotify, etc all pay her twice: once as songwriter and once as performer.

Nektarios ‏@nektariosmusic Jun 22

@tconrad @sgordon70 @om If I have my own label, my song needs to be streamed 140 times to earn 98 cents with music streaming.

Scott ‏@sgordon70 Jun 22

@nektariosmusic @tconrad @om which why ticket prices and merch cost so much. Making up for lost revenue.

Nektarios ‏@nektariosmusic Jun 22

@sgordon70 @tconrad @om I just want to be fairly compensated for making music.

Scott ‏@sgordon70 Jun 22

@nektariosmusic @tconrad @om technology won't allow for it.The masses are screaming for cheaper, more free resources. And paying $$$ 4 shows

Nektarios ‏@nektariosmusic Jun 22

@sgordon70 @tconrad @om Sadly... Music streaming takes cheap music to a new level. 1000000 streams will get you about $7000.