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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 16:11:52 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 15:29:58 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 14:43:45 GMT -5
Thanks glitter...AND...now you opened up something I had no clue about!!! (If I buy from itunes, streaming/tracking does not count on my devices.) What if I buy on my desk top and then do not sync it with my ipad etc. It means Spotify streams on my desktop will not count, but on my ipad it would? Or it synchs with all my same email address devices? Also I buy CD's albums and purchase itunes albums and singles. If I get you correctly...buying a CD for an album still allows streaming to impact on tracking numbers. But with this new counting system and singles coming out before the album...t here is obviously no CD to buy with a single. Are we screwed? What do you suggest:
a. Should we or should we not not buy the single on itunes, (as you mention...no amount of streaming then counts)? b. If we buy on itunes, is that worth more in the end than all streaming counts? Thank goodness we have some time to sort out the best approach.... ....and get confident about the steps to take.
If you buy a CD on your desk top and play that CD on your desk top from your purchased items it will not count as streaming. However, if you open Spotify and play the same CD from there, it will count because you are streaming it directly from their site and not from your device.
Buy the single when the single comes out so it counts towards the sales of that single and it's position on the Hot 100 chart, which is probably as important as anything else for the success of a song. When the album is released buy the album but I would recommend not doing so through the "complete my album" feature but rather buy the single through one venue (like amazon or rhapsody) and then buy the album through another venue (iTunes since iTunes is the most used site for music digital music purchases at the moment) because I believe when you do complete my album it deducts the sale of the single off the total for said single (I could be wrong about that but I believe I read that at one time).
My own style is, I buy the single off iTunes and then I buy the actual CD from a store when it comes out and that way I can purchase the singles as they are released on iTunes to help the single sales too.
My advice (for what it's worth and I'm no expert on any of this) is buy the music, be it albums or singles. It takes A LOT of streaming to count as a single (1 sale) sale as noted in the recent chart information. Something like 1500 streams counts as a single album sale.
IMO The streaming is designed to capture the pulse of the music listener that doesn't necessarily buy albums (most casual fans usually) but they still consume music. I feel like counting the streaming is a way around the problem illegal downloading causes because people who now stream instead of stealing also get credited to the artist.
Please note this is all just my opinion and I am not trying to tell anyone what to do nor am I trying to present myself as some kind of expert on the subject. Just wanted to thank you for the time and patience it takes to explain all of this.
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 14:34:01 GMT -5
I've never seen this pic of Adam and Eber singing together. Nice! Tanja @shining_Adam 11m11 minutes ago Cute! RT @glamdianee: Ahahaha so funny and cute Dadbert and his baby boy Rocks <333 @milestougeaux @adamlambert
New to me, too. Do we have this in a larger size? That's the largest I could find. Many moons ago I capped a version of it from 2010-11-21 E! True Hollywood Story Adam Lambert Part 1. www.dailymotion.com/video/xfq0wn_e-true-hollywood-story-part-1_webcam
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 11:37:33 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 9:35:55 GMT -5
And it is not my birthday again today. Happy Unbirthday bb! Thank you and Happy Unbirthday to you too!
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 9:31:51 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 7:05:01 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 19, 2015 6:55:44 GMT -5
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I only briefly tried the radio requesting bit last cycle, but wasn't comfortable doing it. Happy to skip this cycle. Tried Spotify and deleted it, but streaming makes more sense for me than radio. I'll have to check out the other services that count for BB. Think I'll stick to ATop for this kind of info. Twitter can be a great resource, but I need to filter. Don't need more drama, got enough have in RL.
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Post by 4Ms on Mar 18, 2015 20:13:47 GMT -5
Do you think radio will like my new attractive pic? Nah, wrong demographic..sorry... More like.. Think Miley will mind? We'll all be in jail during the single release. #jailhouserock Is this better?
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