I’ve had an Apple Music subscription for years and use it A LOT. I tried some alternatives (Tidal, Sirius, and maybe one other?) and wasn’t super happy with the options.
Is there a service that people recommend that is good, like $10/month or less, maybe gives better pay to artists? I’d like to spend on a better company if possible too. If Apple has enough money to buy gold trinkets for elected officials they probably don’t need more from me.
Edit: Thanks for all the responses. Some good ideas for sure. Gonna start with qobuz and band camp. Cheers!
The problem is that they increase the price, today is 12, tomorrow 13 and so on, all this without paying properly the artist (and also financing a shit ass company)
If they increase prices without a proper explanation, i’d stop using the service too
Apple’s price increases on Apple Music have not even kept up with inflation. Adjusted for inflation, Apple Music costs less today than it did when they launched it in 2015.
Have they increased the pay to artists too? I don’t know where i can find such data
I don’t know that information. My understanding is that Apple is right behind Qobuz/Tidal for percentages paid to artists, and significantly better than Spotify/Meta.
https://artists.apple.com/support/1124-apple-music-insights-royalty-rate
There certainly doesn’t seem to be any reason to disfavor Apple on this front.