Accountability in Music [ARCHIVED] • Page 108

Billboard

In the six days since XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” was removed from Spotify’s playlists including RapCaviar, where it held prominent placement, the track’s streams dropped 17 percent per day in the United States on average. That continued rate of decline, Billboard estimates, could cost the rapper as much as $60,000 in revenue in a year from — roughly equivalent to the United States’ median household income — from one song on one service in the U.S. alone.

 

R Kelly’s streams went up, but he isn’t really that relevant right now and the publicity helped

 

AH - I guess it was R Kelly I read about.

That's a ton of money for one song. Damn.

 

Bad publicity is unfortunately good publicity at times.

 

If that's the reason that Kendrick was upset, I can understand his perspective. I think there is some merit to the criticism that Spotify's initial rollout seemed to target only certan genres. I hope they go back to the drawing board and figure out a better way to roll out such policies in a more complete way instead of just cherrypicking.

 

Gotta start somewhere, picking two of the biggest pos artists making hundreds of thousands of dollars in playlists and in the news right now seems like one place to start.

 

These dudes are gonna make more money in the next two weeks than a lot of people see all year. That’s bad.

 

I do not disagree.

 

The question of why they were only targeting black art is valid. Spotifys response should've been to roll out playlist removals for white people accused of horrible shit too.

 

I don't think we can say kendrick was upset. TDE's label head is notoriously outspoken and it sounds like he took it upon himself to contact Spotify because its what he believed

 

that’s my belief too

 

That theory is probably correct too.

 

Weirdly, R Kelly doesn't come up with the "playlists featuring" thing for me, and neither does Brand New, but it looks like XXXTentacion does...

 

They did and it's called Wovenwar. I really like them!

 

ooo. I didn't realize that. Not bad stuff!

 

AS I LAY DYING To Feature 'Classic' Lineup

Apparently I was wrong about that. Not sure how I feel about that at all TBH.

 

Holy shit. Fuck those guys if that’s the case.

 

I hope this isn't true

 

Bands former? manager went into detail here on other stuff

Noah Garthwaite - Nick of McCafferty

 

This person used to be a teacher, right? Of children? Do I remember that right? Ugh.

 

Nick from the band was commenting on the r/emo post about it and it’s very clear that he is a massive piece of shit.

 

yeah, mccafferty dude has been a massive piece of shit in everything i've heard by so many people

 

This was just shared to the UK Pop Punk fb group. re: Will from Aiden/William Control.

 

Holy shit, this is fucking terrifying.

 

The William Control stuff is all absolutely horrifying. It happened to one of my closest friends and is being investigated professionally by news and police.