Beats Music is set to relaunch as a part of iTunes next year. Allhiphop reports that iTunes downloads are down and Apple is hoping this incorporation of the streaming service will boost revenue. The website cited an article by the Wall Street Journal which says music sales at iTunes “have fallen 13% to 14% world-wide since the start of the year.”
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine launched Beats Music in January and was meant to compete with music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. A Beats Music subscription costs $9.99 per month.
In May, Apple purchased Beats Electronics and Beats Music. The deal was reportedly worth $3 billion. The price was cut from $3.2 billion because of a low number of subscribers to Beats Music.
Beats was also in the news this year because the National Football League made Bose its official headset brand. Players were thus prohibited from wearing the popular headphones during games and up to 90 minutes after.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has an endorsement deal with Beats and was fined $10,000 for wearing his headphones in a press conference after a game. Cam Newton, Richard Sherman and Tom Brady have also been seen wearing Beats headphones on the field since the ban was enacted.
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Great move by Apple. This will really them out if they market it correctly by promoting the features Beats has over Spotify, as well as the benefits of paying for the service.
really HELP them out*
They needa set up 9 mo free trial for beats, spotify has hookups lol
yawns
Pay monthly for music that you don’t get to keep?Paying to borrow music?lol
You do it for movies..Netflix
Sales are down because hardly anyone buys music and there’s barely anything out worth buying nowadays.
Also what will Beats music offer that can’t be bought from itunes? because if they’re gonna charge people monthly to stream all their music, isn’t that going to kill off album sales?
Maybe they’re gonna stop selling digital copies and only offer streams so that we can’t distribute the digitals for free via piracy…
If they actually do try sell us music without even giving us our own copies then it’s going to suck. You’re literally gonna be paying for the privilege of hearing music.
1990-1991 @ CLUB GLAM SlaM, as Dr. Dre sat to our left in our drivers seat in one Mercedes Benz 190e he was interjected with the words “F*ck That” and then told “In the FUTURE the way you Sound in the Studio” was to be put into the Mercedes Car Stereo , the Sony Walkman and the Panasonic Car Phone upon the floor of that vehicle. We had listened to Dr. Dre and TOLD him while swiping our left hand as a “Price is Right” hand model across the center console. Dr. Dre’s mouth flung WIDE OPEN and just said “DUHAYMMnnn!!!” as these advents were NEWS to Andre. We shook hands on it and took pictures, and throughout many years of our lifetime we continued to remind Dr. Dre that he was To Do these things, we also utilized Interscope Records 1800- number divulging to key personnel of what of us was FOR Dr. Dre and how Dr. Dre had been TOLD prior at CLUB GLAM SLAM in 1990-1991. A cassette tape single with “Gangsta Party and Hit em Up” were sent to us in the mail as we were priveleged to precede all radio. Accordingly of this, our last meeting with Dr. Dre was backstage at N.B.C. In New York as Dr. Dre performed “Been there done That” on Saturday Night Live. Backstage with four in my company against the “plus one” of our liaisons guest list we got to see, and TOLD Dre to DO, OUR thing and to TELL any of the many “of business” appearing men there dressed in black suits what you have. We were shown a man whom our liaison called ” the owner”, this must have been “Jimmy Iovene”. …Our reasons for interjecting what Dr. Dre had to say that morning in 1990-1991 have been kept private as (Dr. Dre is CLEAR). We are immitated by Jimmy Iovene on “The Tanning Effect pt. 3 Steve Stoute Jimmy Iovene interview on you tube. On the Steve Stoute WILL-I-AM interview pt. 3 on you tube this individual pretends involvement as well.. Our “the way you Sound in the studio” words to Dr. Dre have been used by 50 cent as well. The GOOGLE post of a “Self Proclaimed Inventor of Beats by Dre….” has a Steven Lamar stating he had a”vision” as he sat in a car with Jimmy Iovene, this is for YOUR entertainment purposes ONLY. He was given “Declaratory Relief” and is believed (as he’d logically prefer) to be the creator of this that has become called “Beats by Dre”. In 1990-1991 Dr. Dre was TOLD by us as well that, “…muthaf*ckas is gonna be wearin this sh*t and don’t even got it plugged into nuffin’…”
…a letter was delivered to the “Beats by Dre” offices in Santa Monica. The letter said “Hi” to Dr. Dre and TOLD Dr. Dre to listen to the song “LOVE X Love” by George Benson (1st verse) on you tube, as Dr. Dre is our baby FRANKENSTEIN and he is Gro-Wing STRONG-ER day, by day ay, ay, ay..!!! .
iTunes is probably the biggest and worst software cancer ever.
Hmmm sales have dropped since shirty music started dropping? This had been the worst year for rap hands down, still some gems same out but not very much
Do people buy music anymore? Most people have there own way of getting there music.it don’t make sense paying monthly for music that u only get to stream(borrow). If I was to pay for music monthly i’d want to keep it.On paper it might sound good. But What’s the use paying to have access to billions (not literally) of tracks if u can’t keep any……”Maybe they’re gonna stop selling digital copies and only offer streams so that we can’t distribute the digitals for free via piracy.”…that makes sense. I can see them thinking like that. But they’d be literally forcing u into a monthly contract basically. And when u stop paying u don’t have any music to keep….I agree there is still a few gems that off dropped though.That Boaz album the most recent.That’s dope.And there’s a few dope mixtapes out there
Well, I figured out a way to record the streamed music, save it and import it back to my device. Takes a few minutes more (The length of the song), but it works perfectly. I can stream any song, and import either by wave, MP3 or FLAC.
People have ALWAYS been SELFISH with music.. Netflix is paid for monthly but no one wants to keep the movies. People always have been deaf dumb and blind with music. Music is entertainment there for should be treated like entertainment. Pay for it these stupid mixtapes have corrupted people’s minds that Music is something that isn’t paid for or an expensive craft to create.
Why are people so persistent to not pay for music but will pay for movies?
you can’t compare music to movies. Most people are happy watching a movie once or maybe twice.But music is something we listen to again and again. Nobody listens to a album only once.