Nothing skewed about it. People are free to stream their music anywhere. Hip-hop fans just prefer to do that via Apple Music. Spotify could easily do away with their free-tier option but then they wouldn't be able to brag about having the most overall subscribers. Apple Music stuck to a paid-tier service and its worked out for them.

Also, the charts also factor in radio (which always singers the advantage) and that's why more often than not, the songs that spend the most time on the charts aren't rap songs.

Apple Music is only 2% bigger than Amazon Music

Hilarious watching them just talk back and forth writing novels about wildly inaccurate s*** they’ve convinced themselves of in their heads

This not a Chinese forum 😂

And Amazon music? Just as big as apple but we don’t get the charts posted every day lmfao

Posting about music subscription market shares while neglecting the fact that Amazon/Spotify/YouTube Music/Etc all have free-tiers (which makes up a bulk of their subscription base) while Apple Music's entire subscription base is paid-tier. Thought you did something, huh?

Yeah that’s the ONLY reason you wanna talk about Apple Music all the time 🙄😂

Seek help

HDD still lying about Drake's sales I see...

You know you're the goat when everybody plotting against you (music industry vs Drake)

There's nothing wrong with the formula. It was put there for a reason. Before streaming, all we had were digital/physical sales.

Streaming is entirely different so a formula needed to be made to find a way to equate a certain number of streams to what an original unit of one sold album was.

The tiers exist because if some people are paying to stream their music, why should it weigh the same as those who aren't paying anything to stream theirs? If all tiers were counted the same way, it'd also cheat the artists whose fans stream their music via paid-tier subscriptions out of more money.

The paid-tier is valued more because it's basically the last line of defense to keep people seeing music as something to pay for.

The top streamed album on Amazon Music is a random Walker Hayes country album that isn't even on the billboard charts. Either nobody uses that s*** or 99% of subscribers are free tier. And I doubt you knew Tencent was Chinese, you just talking to talk 😂

Obviously I knew Tencent was Chinese. Just curious why there’s so much discussion on a service that has such a small market share

Do you have the numbers showing free vs paid subs btw?

Devine just posted an article that said AM has more paid US subs than Spotify and this thread is for US Charts

I agree but some streaming platforms care about having a lot of users because that increases the market value of their companies, as opposed to just focusing on the paying users. That's the reason why free-tiers exist.

Apple Music is doing it the right way imo and again, its not like free-tier streams don't count. They do. They're just weighed a lot less (and rightfully so imo) and they're weighed that low so people are encouraged to just get paid-tier accounts (which are crazy cheap when you think about the fact that albums used to go for $10-$16 per album and now you can pay that same amount and have access to millions of songs for an entire month.

Across all streaming services? No. Because we have to rely on these services to make their numbers public information and not all of them actively share that.

The main reason why Apple Music can even compete with Spotify is because their entire subscription base is paid-tier and that means their streams weigh more. If Apple Music also had a free-tier, they'd have a lot more subscribers but that'd probably also mean they'd have a lot less paid subscribers and that'd make it an even bigger win for Spotify.

I agree and not just for Apple Music. So far, only Spotify shares numbers for daily/weekly/monthly streams. No other platform does.

Stranger Things stimulus >>>

now do usa only