‘I support real independent moves,’ one fan tweeted, adding: ‘Don’t be mad at the price, be mad that you can’t afford it.’ Kanye announced on Saturday that he had sold more than 8,000 Stem Player devices in just 24 hours, with sales totalling over $2.2million.Ī number of fans took to social media to announce they had copped one of Ye’s devices. So I don’t think a £200 music device – which by the way can be used to play/customise other music, and is likely going to last longer than a worn pair of sneakers – is going to deter them.
These are the same people who queue all night in the cold just to buy a pair of his Yeezy sneakers, which often have a price point somewhere in the region of £200-£600. I don’t think people quite understand how dedicated Kanye’s fan base is. ‘But won’t this high ticket price stop his fans from being able to hear it?’, many are asking. It’s time to take control and build our own,’ he added at the end of the aforementioned Insta post.
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It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. ‘Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. Music is worth more than that – way more.Īnd that’s Kanye’s point: artists should be compensated much better than they currently are. A 20-plus year career dedicated to fine tuning his musical output has resulted in a surplus of awards and accolades, including a record 22 Grammy wins, tying JAY-Z for the most ever among Hip Hop artists.įor as long as I can remember, I’ve always been pro-artist, but these days I’m even more so due to the fact that the majority of streaming services feel it’s acceptable to pay artists meagre sums per stream (it’s estimated that in some countries, Spotify pays $0.0035 per listen). What Ye does creatively isn’t easily mimicked. Ye feels he’s at this same point, in a different stratosphere to many of today’s artists, and I can’t argue with it. They’re apples and oranges and involve two different disciplines. Leonardo da Vinci isn’t going to stick a £20 price tag on the Mona Lisa just because there are thousands of artists doing caricature paintings on street corners for less than a meal at Nandos. I know it’s easy for people to forget that music is art because of how readily available and (offensively) cheap it’s become, but rest assured, it is art – and it takes time, talent and money to produce high quality art. Those same people, in my opinion at least, are complicit in rendering music a disposable art form. This has caused a lot of debate online, with many accusing Ye of pricing people out of hearing it.
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