Many people believe that streaming is a good thing and use streaming services; they are able to listen to music at a cheap price. What they do not know about streaming is that many newer artists are struggling to maintain a career since streaming became popular. Some newer artists can barely make a few dollars if their songs do not get a lot of plays. Each time you stream a song, the artist gets barely a fraction of a penny. Consider this with newer artists that have not been discovered yet. The artist that is not very famous will not get a lot of plays than the more experienced and popular artist. When you buy the less popular artists music on iTunes, it is a lot more than just a fraction of a penny. Usually, it is around one to two dollars.
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A song has to obtain a lot of plays in order for the artist to make enough money from it. Maybe even around hundreds or thousands of plays to get a significant amount of money. This could lead the artist to be hesitant experimenting with new sounds therefore, the diversity will be geared to the similar sounds of the popular music. More artists who want to make enough money would continue using the type of music they know their audience enjoys. People may enjoy listening and singing to a popular song. Furthermore, if every song sounded the same, many people would not enjoy listening to the less diverse music. Since music would be less diverse, the quality of music will not be as well as it used to be. The popular songs in the music industry will sound almost identical. The artists that will want to be able to make money will just stick with what they know is the financially safer way thus leading to the decline of variety in music. “Eventually, music could start to all sound the same. And while you may enjoy singing Adele’s ‘Hello” in the shower, that doesn’t mean you want every song out there to sound exactly like it.” (Abrahams, 27). This statement is true because if every song sounded the same nobody would enjoy listening to it. Therefore, widespread streaming would eventually lead to similar sounding music. As well, music is a valuable thing that should be paid …show more content…
Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free.” Swift is saying that the value of music is important therefore, people should not be able to listen to music for free. She thinks that people should pay for her music which is why she took her songs off of Spotify. Many people think of streaming to be the legal way of piracy. Piracy is allowing people to listen to music online freely. When iTunes came out, you could finally buy music online legally. Then, streaming came out as a less expensive, yet still legal, option: streaming. Streaming music has had a lot of artists to be unable to make a lot of money, or even a little. “For big-name artists getting millions of plays, those tiny payments might add up. But others are lucky to make enough to buy a ham sandwich.” (Abrahams, 26). Since streaming became popular, artists are making less money. As well the value of music is declining because people are taking it for granted. Taylor Swift has said that the music is important and rare, thus people should pay for
A song has to obtain a lot of plays in order for the artist to make enough money from it. Maybe even around hundreds or thousands of plays to get a significant amount of money. This could lead the artist to be hesitant experimenting with new sounds therefore, the diversity will be geared to the similar sounds of the popular music. More artists who want to make enough money would continue using the type of music they know their audience enjoys. People may enjoy listening and singing to a popular song. Furthermore, if every song sounded the same, many people would not enjoy listening to the less diverse music. Since music would be less diverse, the quality of music will not be as well as it used to be. The popular songs in the music industry will sound almost identical. The artists that will want to be able to make money will just stick with what they know is the financially safer way thus leading to the decline of variety in music. “Eventually, music could start to all sound the same. And while you may enjoy singing Adele’s ‘Hello” in the shower, that doesn’t mean you want every song out there to sound exactly like it.” (Abrahams, 27). This statement is true because if every song sounded the same nobody would enjoy listening to it. Therefore, widespread streaming would eventually lead to similar sounding music. As well, music is a valuable thing that should be paid …show more content…
Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free.” Swift is saying that the value of music is important therefore, people should not be able to listen to music for free. She thinks that people should pay for her music which is why she took her songs off of Spotify. Many people think of streaming to be the legal way of piracy. Piracy is allowing people to listen to music online freely. When iTunes came out, you could finally buy music online legally. Then, streaming came out as a less expensive, yet still legal, option: streaming. Streaming music has had a lot of artists to be unable to make a lot of money, or even a little. “For big-name artists getting millions of plays, those tiny payments might add up. But others are lucky to make enough to buy a ham sandwich.” (Abrahams, 26). Since streaming became popular, artists are making less money. As well the value of music is declining because people are taking it for granted. Taylor Swift has said that the music is important and rare, thus people should pay for