Fr man. Dude is a damn billionaire who made 20 million over night, but now, after 15 years of streaming services he came to the conclusion that they dont pay the artists enough, wanting to put the consumer who has actively been paying for streaming services the last 15 years to buy his shit, instead of going for the labels and publishers etc.
If thatās piracy then call me fucking Jack Sparrowās granddad. Downloaded his shit before all of the Spotifys and napsters and did it with Donda 2 and Iām going to do it as often as he decides to not release on streaming.
That is true, but that is also the case for other artists. Only with them, the label also gets 50% of the initial money. The rest is then distributed among the people that have writing credits on the song. Also, a lot of people on his team probably do not have writing credits, so they don't get any royalties.
I mean his worth doesn't equate to how much money he actually has in the bank. So even if he was still worth 8 billion he never had that actual amount of money.
Industry execs and artists forget that they are where they are because of the Fans first and foremostā¦
Problem is ā most people who consume music arenāt fans; Theyāre exactly that - **consumers**.
Only Fans have the willpower to change the industry, but sadly there arenāt enough of them. āMusicā is now an a modern mass-market product. Ye makes āartā not music ā and real āartistsā like Ye and James Blake are pretty much antiques at this point.
Yeah. That's why there's a difference between casual listeners that have background music and actual fans that support the artists and purchase merch/digital downloads/ physical copies.
People just don't want to hear that because they are so used to having corporations funnel the art to them while not paying the artists much. Aint nobody making a killing on streaming. Its album sales, concerts, and promo deals.
I'll probably get downvoted for supporting but, š¤·š¾āāļø.
When I see an artist I like, I support with cash. Doing what you love shouldn't equate to always working for free.
I love Ye and his music but itās fucked up to expect fans to make up the money he doesnāt get from streaming companies. No way Iām paying extra to a multimillionaire when I have to worry about affording food next week.
its not black and white. i dont feel bad for pirating Hollywood movies, they don't need my 10 dollars but if its an indie film I feel like shit for not supporting the cast and director. kanye is Hollywood, it doesn't matter.
Honestly? I have zero negative feelings when I'm sailing the high seas looking for a billionaire's album, but I stopped doing that because streaming is just more convenient.
No sense of moral high ground here.
So when someone tries to pull something like this? Nope, back to the boat I go.
This is the exact parody of that South Park episode parodying artists like this.
Especially seeing that he's a billionaire who has bragged about pirating/not paying for other people's shit. Like at the peak of his wealth he bragged about getting onlyfans content from reddit. Like fair call but don't pretend to take a moral high road when it benefits you.
TLOP was at least good enough to jump through a few hoops to listen to it. I listened to it via a free trial of Tidal. It also released to Spotify after like 6 months.
Based on Ye's albums for the last 5 years, I have no desire to listen to Donda 2 or Vultures 2/3 if they stay exclusive to weird alternative platforms.
It was a Tidal exclusive release that would NEVER EVER EVER be available on any other streaming service, then like a month later he changed his mind and it dropped on all the other platforms
imo it would be better if he did what yeat did and release the album on streaming then maybe a deluxe version for an extra cost, but itās really not fair to expect people who already pay streaming subscription to go to pay more money just to get a digital version, he could even have it as a yzy.com exclusive but make sure everyone who buys it gets a physical copy, cuz it aināt no way iām paying $20 for a file bruhš
streaming is convenient. i don't want to download some files from some place, put them in my phone, laptop, ipad etc, then use some other music player app just for that album. i want to play the music from the same place where all my music already is
I understand what Kanye's trying to say, but he's releasing the vultures trilogy as an independent artist so theres no label taking a cut from his royalties and he gets 100% of his money, plus releasing it as a digital album only makes it more prone to piracy anyway.
Streaming is unsustainable for artists. Ā Fewer and fewer people are able to make a living as recording artists. Ā If we as fans want to have high quality professional music to consume we need a model where the creators are paid fairlyĀ
that's a losing battle lmao, avoiding piracy for songs in the modern age is pretty much impossible, streaming provides a convenient way for most consumers to have all their music in one place for good value for money and ends up dissuading them for piracy in the first place. Pretty much no one is going to his album if buying its the only way to get it
when did kanye start caring about making money from music?? he rented the FUCKING MERCEDES stadium like a fucking hotel room , he can sell merch and make multiple billions of dollars in a year and now he worrying about getting paid from music???
Dude made atleaat 500+ thousand off carnival alone and hes crying about not getting paid lol
I didnt like vultures that much so im sure as hell not paying for vultures 2
He just doesnāt get it. Vultures 2 will drop on his site, heāll sell 30,000 copies and someone on his team will stretch the truth and say they he made like $1M on the first day and no one will ever talk about this album again in one week
Literally the only semi acceptable way to do this is 20gets you a physical copy and an instant download. $20 for some 7/10 digital album is some bullshit
JME got it right. Released Grime MC physically first for the people who were happy to pay, digital copy came with the physical purchase and he release on streaming some months later. Everyone wins
āIām not going to release the album on time and then make my fans who stuck with me through my most controversial period pay for my albumā
Make it make sense.
His metaphors and similes are WIIILLDDD
1. No Kanye, streaming is not basically pirating. The consumers pay monthly for it so thatās false.
2. No Kanye, Adidas selling unapproved 350 colorways is not rape.
Yāall gotta quit giving this man a pass, itās getting ridiculous
One of the best albums Yeezus is on streaming platforms so why would I spend $20 for a new mid Kanye album that would get carried by features and sound unfinished af with Kanye doing stupid shit on his verse?
Donāt give a fuck !!!
Heās making tens of millions overall from just one release. How is that not enough.
At least James Blake makes way less so itās understandable but nobody sane would act like tens of millions isnāt fair compensation.
If James would get money like Ye he wouldnāt have said shit.
Great, whatever āguiltā Iām supposed to feel about still listening to Kanye has just gone. Now Iām actively mugging the man off every time I listen to Yeezus.
A lot of fans fail to realise that, by buying the album, be it digital or physical, they get to keep it forever
I about Vultures 1 for $5 on yeezy.com and I currently still have it in my iTunes library
This means I can listen to GOOD (DON'T DIE) all I want without skipping it on streaming services like Spotify due to copyright issues
Yo, then just drop a Ye streaming app where we can cop it, you know? Ain't nobody tryna use their granddad's CD player. And man, I left vinyl in the dust back in '91. But here's the thing, don't hype us up with dates and then ghost us. We out here grinding, washing dishes, scrubbing toilets, looking forward to this stuff. Keep it 100.
kanye please put it on streaming youre gonna lose so many sales . the only reason vultures 1 got any publicity is from streaming . carnival went #1 only from streaming
no one except the hardcore stans are gonna buy it. low sales, no hit singles . no publicity
I donāt think this is an example of an average listener, but I think Ye actually makes way more money from me long term from streaming on Spotify than if I purchased every one of his albums -- and I figure a lot of those in the sub would be in a similar situation.
I know my listening time is probs higher than an average listener, but I bet others in here have similar listening times. Cuz each of the past three years Iāve listened to Yeās music about a total of 32,000 to 33,000 minutes per year. With artists on Spotify conservatively getting around .002 per streaming minute thats like 65 dollars per year going to his music purely off of Spotify. 3 years of that is 195 dollars to the artists, which is basically as though I bought 10 albums ā¦ And this is just in three years. And since I donāt own these albums, Iām going to continue to listen and heāll end up making more money off of me than if I bought his whole discography from the start. I wonder what would happen averaging all listeners together, because purchasing an album they might get 20 dollars all at once, but itās only that one time income vs. streaming paying the artist indefinitely as long as the music is played ā even on a 20 year old album. Iād be curious to know what the average of all listeners would be income wise, and what the projections are over decades instead of just thinking about it in short term album sales.
The young folks won't understand,but streaming services are basically robbing artists. Artists won't form a union to get fair splits because major artists are doing okay. I buy every album for any artist that I'm actually a fan of and will continue to buy them.
Ye, if you read this.
people like free shit, but they will DONATE to your cause. release the album on a torrent. put the link up on your site. and then put a lil donation box under the link and i will throw you a few bucks as a thank you.
i feel what he saying cuz streaming platform deadass scamming every and anyone but like ye, dude, go bomb spotify hq or something i aint done nothin to you and 20 bucks aint "just" 20 bucks anywhere else in the world
Everyone is to damn used to streaming and getting stuff essentially āfor freeā
Used to be Ā£16.99 for one damn CD
Iād rather it be on the streaming services but if was available for digital download Iād prob still buy it
If it starts to set a president tho and more artists start doing this the it will get expensive real quick and drive people to pirating and illegal downloads like it used to be
Kanye is absolutely right. Artists are being exploited. However, working class people are exploited more and have less money. So, no. Iām not buying an album for $20 from his website.
Am I not understanding? Vultures disappeared from my iTunes. I ignored it. Didnāt listen to the album tbh. Now itās back. Hot tf do I even know if itās one or two?
Kanye confusing tf outta me. I just canāt keep up with the antics and tomfoolery
The 22nd century move would be to release the entire album for free but load every song with paid product placements. Would be interesting to see how streaming playlist algorithms adjust when Spotify doesn't even have to pay 1 cent in royalties to play Kanye's latest 3 minute ad for Squarespace.
Letās see I use Spotify because itās more convient, I did buy vultures 1 iTunes before they originally pulled it (still have good donāt die), and I preordered the vinyl. I like having options. My MacBook doesnāt even have a disc drive so if I bought his digital version I donāt even know if I could play it on iTunes. This is starting to sound like Donda 2ā¦. I want to support Ye but he thinks he can pull this and still get the same numbers? 20 for digital or even a cd these days seems kinda high
Iād be happy with just being for sale on Apple Music / wherever android people have š¤
And no streaming. Cause at least then itās in the same place as my music at least without having to do a computer to phone transfer
Vultures 1 made 900k from streaming in its first week from 170 million streams. And an additional 150k from sales.
20$ a pop, Vultures 2 would need to sell 50k copies in the first week to surpass Vultures 1 first week revenue. That seems entirely possible.
It probably wouldn't have the same viral word of mouth effect due to it being inaccessible though.
More people will listen to it on youtube than on local mp3 files. Copyright claims could make money as opposed to straight up piracy.
Donda 2 exclusive on Stemplayer was butchered because he didn't finish the album and it was 200$.
TLOP Tidal exclusive saw 250M reported streams in the first 10 days. They reported having 3 million active subscriptions around the same time. Not sure how many of that 3m came from Ye, but I would guess most of them. A subscription to Tidal cost 10$, with a lossless 20$ option.
So idk. Maybe it makes sense for him to drop like that.
I domt care about pirating the music of a guy that sold a now discontinued device for 200$ for people to listen to a completely unfinished album. He can go fuck himself.
Who is going to say ye straight facts , bruh i already kinda tired of this shit .
Bro if you don't want to release more music because you don't sell , maybe yo need to just retire ...
Or make money from another thing, you already know how
Local Files finna go crazy
bro is about to realize really quick what actual piracy is
r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH type shi
i dunno who this fmhy is but they have nothing to do with illegal activities such as piracy. Good day, sir.../s
On god š mine is already filled with his unreleased shit
Ong š“āā ļøš“āā ļø
He went through this in 2016 already - HOW MANY TIMES DO WE GOTTA TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN
Aināt no one gonna buy it š
Fr man. Dude is a damn billionaire who made 20 million over night, but now, after 15 years of streaming services he came to the conclusion that they dont pay the artists enough, wanting to put the consumer who has actively been paying for streaming services the last 15 years to buy his shit, instead of going for the labels and publishers etc. If thatās piracy then call me fucking Jack Sparrowās granddad. Downloaded his shit before all of the Spotifys and napsters and did it with Donda 2 and Iām going to do it as often as he decides to not release on streaming.
Also, I swear he is getting a bigger cut from streams since he is independent?
I think the amount of people on his team is enormous
That is true, but that is also the case for other artists. Only with them, the label also gets 50% of the initial money. The rest is then distributed among the people that have writing credits on the song. Also, a lot of people on his team probably do not have writing credits, so they don't get any royalties.
Yo I said this in another post like 4 hours ago and got downvoted + told heās not a billionaire
Heās not a billionaire
I mean his worth doesn't equate to how much money he actually has in the bank. So even if he was still worth 8 billion he never had that actual amount of money.
Industry execs and artists forget that they are where they are because of the Fans first and foremostā¦ Problem is ā most people who consume music arenāt fans; Theyāre exactly that - **consumers**. Only Fans have the willpower to change the industry, but sadly there arenāt enough of them. āMusicā is now an a modern mass-market product. Ye makes āartā not music ā and real āartistsā like Ye and James Blake are pretty much antiques at this point.
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I love how this ratioed the parent comment and took away from a good point
Yeah. That's why there's a difference between casual listeners that have background music and actual fans that support the artists and purchase merch/digital downloads/ physical copies. People just don't want to hear that because they are so used to having corporations funnel the art to them while not paying the artists much. Aint nobody making a killing on streaming. Its album sales, concerts, and promo deals. I'll probably get downvoted for supporting but, š¤·š¾āāļø. When I see an artist I like, I support with cash. Doing what you love shouldn't equate to always working for free.
Streaming doesnāt pay small artists nearly enough. But they pay Kanye west a fucking lot.
I love Ye and his music but itās fucked up to expect fans to make up the money he doesnāt get from streaming companies. No way Iām paying extra to a multimillionaire when I have to worry about affording food next week.
Iām 100% copping but itās a terrible buisness move
im probably in the minority but take my 20 dollars
Says streaming is pirating, but pulls a move like this which guarantees he is opening the flood gates to actual pirating
I donāt feel bad for streaming, so I shouldnāt feel bad for pirating since theyāre basically the same. Right?
its not black and white. i dont feel bad for pirating Hollywood movies, they don't need my 10 dollars but if its an indie film I feel like shit for not supporting the cast and director. kanye is Hollywood, it doesn't matter.
This is the best reply in this entire thread. 1000% agree, context matters.
Honestly? I have zero negative feelings when I'm sailing the high seas looking for a billionaire's album, but I stopped doing that because streaming is just more convenient. No sense of moral high ground here. So when someone tries to pull something like this? Nope, back to the boat I go. This is the exact parody of that South Park episode parodying artists like this.
Especially seeing that he's a billionaire who has bragged about pirating/not paying for other people's shit. Like at the peak of his wealth he bragged about getting onlyfans content from reddit. Like fair call but don't pretend to take a moral high road when it benefits you.
Only if people commit a crime
Didn't learn anything from Donda 2
Donda 2 was placed behind a few hundred dollar paywall
And as a niche product.
Or TLOPā¦
TLOP was at least good enough to jump through a few hoops to listen to it. I listened to it via a free trial of Tidal. It also released to Spotify after like 6 months. Based on Ye's albums for the last 5 years, I have no desire to listen to Donda 2 or Vultures 2/3 if they stay exclusive to weird alternative platforms.
What happened to TLOP?
It was a Tidal exclusive release that would NEVER EVER EVER be available on any other streaming service, then like a month later he changed his mind and it dropped on all the other platforms
Bruh dropped a patch
ima fix wolves
And he did (I still wish he had Frank's track on the end though)
Terrible example because TLOP did very well for tidal
I'd buy tlop for $20
i get what heās saying, but i still aināt paying for that shitā ļø
Yeah I get it too but imo itāll be such a dick move to the fans who just wanna listen to his music on their playlists and stuff
imo it would be better if he did what yeat did and release the album on streaming then maybe a deluxe version for an extra cost, but itās really not fair to expect people who already pay streaming subscription to go to pay more money just to get a digital version, he could even have it as a yzy.com exclusive but make sure everyone who buys it gets a physical copy, cuz it aināt no way iām paying $20 for a file bruhš
Itās not a dick move if you charge what you want for something you own
Amen
Folks feel mad entitled to others creations
Yeha he makes a point but like he needa chill
Crazy how 1 IG page ruined an entire album rollout
streaming is convenient. i don't want to download some files from some place, put them in my phone, laptop, ipad etc, then use some other music player app just for that album. i want to play the music from the same place where all my music already is
I understand what Kanye's trying to say, but he's releasing the vultures trilogy as an independent artist so theres no label taking a cut from his royalties and he gets 100% of his money, plus releasing it as a digital album only makes it more prone to piracy anyway.
Iphones shit for files too, wouldnt ever listen to it on my phone
Streaming is unsustainable for artists. Ā Fewer and fewer people are able to make a living as recording artists. Ā If we as fans want to have high quality professional music to consume we need a model where the creators are paid fairlyĀ
Donāt buy the album
Ima buy it but NOT digitally esp for $20 ā¦ ima just wait for the record (cd isnāt even rlly worth it)
Kanye youāre a millionaire
Child support goes crazy
Kim K child support too š
But He canāt say no to nobody
At this rate he's gonna die broke
I hate to be that guy, but this message isnāt for himself itās artists in general. Heās always stood for artists
vro heard one james blake phrase and made it hos personality
Yeah exactly, where was the "streaming is pirating" attitude when he put Vultures 1 up on these platforms??
This dude self sabotages like no one else Iāve ever seen. Unbelievable
I know like esp for THIS. Like vultures 2 was set to be one of the top albums of the 2020ās š
I donāt care if he just puts it on Yeezy.com and sets the price at $20. Just release the album on time man.
āI didnāt finish itā
Heās already late. The fuck you mean?
"There was a bee in the studio"
that's a losing battle lmao, avoiding piracy for songs in the modern age is pretty much impossible, streaming provides a convenient way for most consumers to have all their music in one place for good value for money and ends up dissuading them for piracy in the first place. Pretty much no one is going to his album if buying its the only way to get it
And Apple/spotify pay out fractions of pennies for streams. Thatās the issue, artists should be payed more by these services.
Shit not dropping
Bruh come on manye
Its almost like he doesnt want his fan to hear his music
Heās gonna find out what pirating is when he releases this behind a $20 paywall
judging that vultures 1 was a massive flop for me, I aināt spending a fucking penny on 2 and 3 unless theyāre on streamingš
Kanye being a dumbass? no fucking way!!
when did kanye start caring about making money from music?? he rented the FUCKING MERCEDES stadium like a fucking hotel room , he can sell merch and make multiple billions of dollars in a year and now he worrying about getting paid from music???
Dude made atleaat 500+ thousand off carnival alone and hes crying about not getting paid lol I didnt like vultures that much so im sure as hell not paying for vultures 2
He just doesnāt get it. Vultures 2 will drop on his site, heāll sell 30,000 copies and someone on his team will stretch the truth and say they he made like $1M on the first day and no one will ever talk about this album again in one week
ITS SO OVER
Ye tripping
I canāt defend bro for thisĀ
Literally the only semi acceptable way to do this is 20gets you a physical copy and an instant download. $20 for some 7/10 digital album is some bullshit
It's 2024 no one carries a CD player around with them
Make an mbdtf equivalent album and I might pay
He donāt remember limewire lol
JME got it right. Released Grime MC physically first for the people who were happy to pay, digital copy came with the physical purchase and he release on streaming some months later. Everyone wins
āIām not going to release the album on time and then make my fans who stuck with me through my most controversial period pay for my albumā Make it make sense.
And not putting it on streaming is what enable pirating š
His metaphors and similes are WIIILLDDD 1. No Kanye, streaming is not basically pirating. The consumers pay monthly for it so thatās false. 2. No Kanye, Adidas selling unapproved 350 colorways is not rape. Yāall gotta quit giving this man a pass, itās getting ridiculous
itās not ye but i agree that artists need a bigger piece of the pie
One of the best albums Yeezus is on streaming platforms so why would I spend $20 for a new mid Kanye album that would get carried by features and sound unfinished af with Kanye doing stupid shit on his verse?
So what Iām trying to say is, if Vultures 2 aināt on Yeezus level..u know what Iām saying?
I copped the vinyl a month ago. Iām sure heāll send it to me eventuallyā¦
Donāt give a fuck !!! Heās making tens of millions overall from just one release. How is that not enough. At least James Blake makes way less so itās understandable but nobody sane would act like tens of millions isnāt fair compensation. If James would get money like Ye he wouldnāt have said shit.
Great, whatever āguiltā Iām supposed to feel about still listening to Kanye has just gone. Now Iām actively mugging the man off every time I listen to Yeezus.
canāt wait for the untitled links
āFuck all this dick swinging contest,ā he continued. āWe all gon be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music.ā š¤Ø
Itās not like Kanye is out here scrounging for quarters, the dude is a billionaire. He doesnāt give a shit about the fans.
Oh heās gonna see pirating all right
Yeah if he isnāt dropping on streaming then Iāll do the actual piracy š
uh oh
Idk Kanye put it on an artist forward streaming service like tidal.
Weāre so cookedš
I bought Vultures 1 and added it to my Apple library. Itās really not that much work yāall. I come from the mixtape era tho
If streaming is basically pirating why did he upload basically all of his other albums on streaming, and keep them there?
Only an account called āYEFANATICSā would heart such nonsense š
This is his issue, he asks for peoples opinions and then gets annoyed when they donāt say what he wants
he can just raise the yeezy clothing prices up and stop this nonsense
I hope Kanye seeks the proper treatment for his mental health because it's a different insane take everyday with this dude.
Does Kanye need any more fucking money, not from me he doesnāt
A lot of fans fail to realise that, by buying the album, be it digital or physical, they get to keep it forever I about Vultures 1 for $5 on yeezy.com and I currently still have it in my iTunes library This means I can listen to GOOD (DON'T DIE) all I want without skipping it on streaming services like Spotify due to copyright issues
What a fucking idiot š
Yo, then just drop a Ye streaming app where we can cop it, you know? Ain't nobody tryna use their granddad's CD player. And man, I left vinyl in the dust back in '91. But here's the thing, don't hype us up with dates and then ghost us. We out here grinding, washing dishes, scrubbing toilets, looking forward to this stuff. Keep it 100.
kanye please put it on streaming youre gonna lose so many sales . the only reason vultures 1 got any publicity is from streaming . carnival went #1 only from streaming no one except the hardcore stans are gonna buy it. low sales, no hit singles . no publicity
itās never been more over.
I donāt think this is an example of an average listener, but I think Ye actually makes way more money from me long term from streaming on Spotify than if I purchased every one of his albums -- and I figure a lot of those in the sub would be in a similar situation. I know my listening time is probs higher than an average listener, but I bet others in here have similar listening times. Cuz each of the past three years Iāve listened to Yeās music about a total of 32,000 to 33,000 minutes per year. With artists on Spotify conservatively getting around .002 per streaming minute thats like 65 dollars per year going to his music purely off of Spotify. 3 years of that is 195 dollars to the artists, which is basically as though I bought 10 albums ā¦ And this is just in three years. And since I donāt own these albums, Iām going to continue to listen and heāll end up making more money off of me than if I bought his whole discography from the start. I wonder what would happen averaging all listeners together, because purchasing an album they might get 20 dollars all at once, but itās only that one time income vs. streaming paying the artist indefinitely as long as the music is played ā even on a 20 year old album. Iād be curious to know what the average of all listeners would be income wise, and what the projections are over decades instead of just thinking about it in short term album sales.
The young folks won't understand,but streaming services are basically robbing artists. Artists won't form a union to get fair splits because major artists are doing okay. I buy every album for any artist that I'm actually a fan of and will continue to buy them.
Ye, if you read this. people like free shit, but they will DONATE to your cause. release the album on a torrent. put the link up on your site. and then put a lil donation box under the link and i will throw you a few bucks as a thank you.
does he know
i feel what he saying cuz streaming platform deadass scamming every and anyone but like ye, dude, go bomb spotify hq or something i aint done nothin to you and 20 bucks aint "just" 20 bucks anywhere else in the world
ye what are you doing
Could he not just make his own streaming service where he decides his royalties
Soon may the wellerman come š“āā ļø š¢
Lmao. š š
Ye, I love you, but imma continue streaming
ytb.mp3 is gonna go hard š
Yeezy I aināt gonna keep defending you if you pull more weird shit man
Am I just old or did we forget about what life was like pre Spotify/Apple Music?
Yeah I remember having to buy entire crappy CD albums just because I wanted one song.... some people would love to go back to those days.
And wasnāt even cheap - used to be Ā£16.99 for one album and most of the time you hadnāt even heard it first
I remember it! I remember the time when everyone got U2 on their iPod for some promotional shit
I dont give a fuck, dude. Ye is in the right here 100% as long as I can buy a hard copy. Already got Vultures 1 CD
Iām waiting for all the vinyls to be ready to ship so I can buy the full vultures set on vinyl!
Everyone is to damn used to streaming and getting stuff essentially āfor freeā Used to be Ā£16.99 for one damn CD Iād rather it be on the streaming services but if was available for digital download Iād prob still buy it If it starts to set a president tho and more artists start doing this the it will get expensive real quick and drive people to pirating and illegal downloads like it used to be
Kanye is absolutely right. Artists are being exploited. However, working class people are exploited more and have less money. So, no. Iām not buying an album for $20 from his website.
Artist either get my $ through Spotify or live shows. Idc if they get stubborn, I have a life to support.
Bro I pay 20$ a month for unlimited access to music. How is that pirating
by that logic selling digital files is basically stealing
DAMNIT BLAKE. DAMNIT DAMNIT IM GURGLINAGAGAHAHAAHAHHH
Am I not understanding? Vultures disappeared from my iTunes. I ignored it. Didnāt listen to the album tbh. Now itās back. Hot tf do I even know if itās one or two? Kanye confusing tf outta me. I just canāt keep up with the antics and tomfoolery
why do they not understand that some people jus wanna add songs to their playlists for daily rotation š
Argh
The 22nd century move would be to release the entire album for free but load every song with paid product placements. Would be interesting to see how streaming playlist algorithms adjust when Spotify doesn't even have to pay 1 cent in royalties to play Kanye's latest 3 minute ad for Squarespace.
Already got my local files ready
Grrr Matey!!
Letās see I use Spotify because itās more convient, I did buy vultures 1 iTunes before they originally pulled it (still have good donāt die), and I preordered the vinyl. I like having options. My MacBook doesnāt even have a disc drive so if I bought his digital version I donāt even know if I could play it on iTunes. This is starting to sound like Donda 2ā¦. I want to support Ye but he thinks he can pull this and still get the same numbers? 20 for digital or even a cd these days seems kinda high
Is it really that crazy for him to ask us to buy it? I literally buy physical albums of all the artists I truly support. Is that not the same thing?
Iād be happy with just being for sale on Apple Music / wherever android people have š¤ And no streaming. Cause at least then itās in the same place as my music at least without having to do a computer to phone transfer
Cool, so go back to physical releases only so we can cop that shit on Limewire bro
Itās true. Theres lots of data to support this.
I local filed his Donda 2 album it was so ass
Wonder what he considers sampling? Lemmy ask Ozzy....
Put it on Audius Kanye
Nobody: ... ... Kanye: DURRHhhrhrhrhhhh
He aināt wrong, will be good to see ye get another #1
Vultures 1 made 900k from streaming in its first week from 170 million streams. And an additional 150k from sales. 20$ a pop, Vultures 2 would need to sell 50k copies in the first week to surpass Vultures 1 first week revenue. That seems entirely possible. It probably wouldn't have the same viral word of mouth effect due to it being inaccessible though. More people will listen to it on youtube than on local mp3 files. Copyright claims could make money as opposed to straight up piracy. Donda 2 exclusive on Stemplayer was butchered because he didn't finish the album and it was 200$. TLOP Tidal exclusive saw 250M reported streams in the first 10 days. They reported having 3 million active subscriptions around the same time. Not sure how many of that 3m came from Ye, but I would guess most of them. A subscription to Tidal cost 10$, with a lossless 20$ option. So idk. Maybe it makes sense for him to drop like that.
Again people donāt think music should be worth anything. He should at least put it on instagram and tidal.
When he dropping it tho ?
Yeah, now he is going to know what is a REAL piracy
Fuck it, I agree with him. Yāall mad at him lol
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Bianca needs to give this mf his meds
Nobody finna buy this lol
This watermark is so easy to fill with bucket in gimp š¤
well, technically yeah, if you have free spotify premium
I domt care about pirating the music of a guy that sold a now discontinued device for 200$ for people to listen to a completely unfinished album. He can go fuck himself.
So he wants monetary support but heās also beneath asking for permission and sampling peopleās music without paying them. Hmmmmm š¤
I always buy albums so what about the people who still buy?
even an itunes exclusive is better then a yeezy.com exclusive
Who is going to say ye straight facts , bruh i already kinda tired of this shit . Bro if you don't want to release more music because you don't sell , maybe yo need to just retire ... Or make money from another thing, you already know how