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Jimin fans continue to conquer new streaming platforms every day!

Where are you streaming for Jimin?

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Don’t like golf? Fine. Then don’t.

The existence of golf does not preclude you from engaging in other other leisure activities or sports. Golf does not replace other leisure activities or sports. Golf is not a scam. You are not being forced to golf. There is no need to exert so much energy as sock puppets, trolls, and detractors thrashing golf in social media. There is no need to boycott any venue that even mentions golf. Golf is not going to take over the world and eliminate other leisure activities or sports. There is no need to freak out about golf. There is no competition, golf actually does co-exist with other leisure activities and sports. Many aficionados enjoy golf, and would appreciate it if you would just chill out about golf.

For the single digit IQ, humor and metaphorically impaired people sitting in the back of the room diddling on their phones, try this with the default text editor on your platform of choice: find and replace “golf” with MQA, replace “other leisure activities” with flac, and replace “sports” with DSD. And just chill the flac out already.

Full disclosure: I do not care for golf, but would never attempt to deny anyone their pleasure; I understand and really like MQA and would appreciate if haters and trolls would chill out, and “just” live and let live.

https://33bowls.com/mqa_clear.html

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Jay Z’s Tidal Streaming Service Launches With Blue Avatars

If you follow a number of major artists on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed some of them have changed their profile picture and cover photo to light blue/teal.

All of them have posted a message about making music history and included the hashtag #TIDALforALL.

Jay Z wants you to know that Tidal, the Scandinavian high-fidelity streaming service that he bought earlier this month, is a big deal. So he didn’t just get some of music’s biggest stars to tweet about the service’s big relaunch, which is happening today. He got them all to change their social media avatars (on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, in addition to Twitter) to a violent light-blue square and ask their fans for “support,” as if this was a protest movement or something. That’s pretty gross, Jay!

What may be worrying for the likes of Spotify and other companies is the backing it has. Artists like Kayne West, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jack White, and Madonna are backing the service, and it’s believed that Taylor Swift, who famously pulled her albums off Spotify late last year, will also put her music on the service.

A spokesperson for Big Machine Records told the BBC that the singer’s back catalogue appears on all streaming services that require a subscription fee.

Tidal is relaunching in the U.S. around 5PM eastern today, according to a countdown clock on the streaming service’s site. The service doesn’t have a free option like Spotify; it’s going for $19.99 a month for lossless hi-fidelity streaming quality, or $9.99 for standard audio quality. The service has deals with every major label, and it’s promising curated playlists and editorial content, as well. Right now, it has every Taylor Swift album streaming, whereas Swift pulled all her music from Spotify last year. And Jay is making a “special announcement” at a launch event in NYC this afternoon. It seems entirely possible that Jay’s Roc Nation management clients Kanye West and/or Rihanna could surprise-release their new albums as Tidal exclusives.

In the case of Spotify, it pays an average “per stream” fee to right holders – mainly the labels in this case – of between $0.006 and $0.0084. The amount paid per stream depends on the country a song is streamed, the number of paid users listening to it, the relative premium pricing, the currency value in different countries and an artist’s loyalty rates.

Ultimately, it means that a song would need to be streamed one million times to make at least $6,000 and when that’s broken up between Spotify, labels, and artists, it’s usually the artist that gets a fraction of this sum.

In the case of Spotify, it pays an average “per stream” fee to right holders – mainly the labels in this case – of between $0.006 and $0.0084. The amount paid per stream depends on the country a song is streamed, the number of paid users listening to it, the relative premium pricing, the currency value in different countries and an artist’s loyalty rates.

Ultimately, it means that a song would need to be streamed one million times to make at least $6,000 and when that’s broken up between Spotify, labels, and artists, it’s usually the artist that gets a fraction of this sum.

Roughly three weeks ago, a plethora of the music industry’s elite took to a press conference to announce the re-launch of the music streaming APP - Tidal. The likes of Rihanna, Kanye, Jay - Z , Madonna and even Taylor Swift, stood before the world’s media and boasted that the service would offer fans (note the use of the word fans and not customers) high - quality  audio and video as well as curated content.

The service also promised the media that artists would have more control over their content, selling this “exclusive access” bullshit whilst charging the ‘fans’ $20 a month ($24 in AUD) for the privilege.  It was to herald; in the words of the PR spin masters “a whole new era” in the music industry.  

Well... It didn’t.  Numbers released by BGR - a US mobile and technology news website on April 21st, show the APP has fallen out of the top 700 iPhone download charts after only 2 weeks. The crash so glorious it has been dubbed “a spectacular flop”.

So what the fuck happened? If we take a look back we can see cracks forming early on. For instance, shortly after the music service went public and all looked hunky dory the CEO Andy Chen was let go. The following reason was given by a Tidal rep; Tonstad (the new guy and formerly a consultant for the Norwegian Ministry of Environment WTF???) has a better understanding of the industry and a clear vision for how the company is looking to change the status quo," Whatever that means.

But even before they “parted ways” with boss man, and gave this irritatingly ambiguous statement, something very unfortunate happened to the brand. Its marketing strategy turned around and bit it in the arse! And spectacularly too. I’m just speculating now but this may have also led to Chen’s departure?

According to BGR Tidal’s attack on its competitors Pandora and Spotify apparently raised the public awareness of their streaming services boosting their download performance, in particular Spotify’s who rocketed up the iPad download chart to number 40, something not seen since November 2014. This all curiously happened after the media launch of Tidal on 31st March 2015. Ooops.

Since then Tidal has dwindled. When they originally launched they were positioned number 20 on the download charts, and in just two short weeks, they were forced out of contention and fell out of the top 700.

Poor Tidal, it looks like they had it against them from the beginning, what with trying to compete against popular apps in an already highly competitive market backfiring and all. I’m no expert, but that sounds like an obvious marketing 101 rule to me.

Anyway, now it’s up to the new CEO to reposition the brand so people don’t associate it with over protective multimillionaires who appear to be using the APP to promote their own agendas. And whilst they’re working on that, maybe they should also reconsider their business strategy, you know, get customers for themselves, rather than getting them for their competitors. Just a thought.