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Post by cassie on Mar 19, 2015 12:55:54 GMT -5
I've never seen this pic of Adam and Eber singing together. Nice! Tanja @shining_Adam 11m11 minutes ago Cute! RT @glamdianee: Ahahaha so funny and cute Dadbert and his baby boy Rocks <333 @milestougeaux @adamlambert
New to me, too. Do we have this in a larger size?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 12:57:12 GMT -5
No wonder Maxwell loves Adam, look at the fav and retweet. More than anything else he has posted!
eta Very ot: At my Rv coop this morning they are playing blind mans bluff with golf carts! Driver is blind folded with passenger directing the driver thru obstacle courses.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:19:30 GMT -5
No wonder Maxwell loves Adam, look at the fav and retweet. More than anything else he has posted!
eta Very ot: At my Rv coop this morning they are playing blind mans bluff with golf carts! Driver is blind folded with passenger directing the driver thru obstacle courses.
Max is also from Rancho Penasquitos. Although he never knew Adam there
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:20:39 GMT -5
Thanks glitter...AND...now you opened up something I had no clue about!!! (If I buy from itunes, streaming/tracking does not count on my devices.) What if I buy on my desk top and then do not sync it with my ipad etc. It means Spotify streams on my desktop will not count, but on my ipad it would? Or it synchs with all my same email address devices? Also I buy CD's albums and purchase itunes albums and singles. If I get you correctly...buying a CD for an album still allows streaming to impact on tracking numbers. But with this new counting system and singles coming out before the album...t here is obviously no CD to buy with a single. Are we screwed? What do you suggest:
a. Should we or should we not not buy the single on itunes, (as you mention...no amount of streaming then counts)? b. If we buy on itunes, is that worth more in the end than all streaming counts? Thank goodness we have some time to sort out the best approach.... ....and get confident about the steps to take.
If you buy a CD on your desk top and play that CD on your desk top from your purchased items it will not count as streaming. However, if you open Spotify and play the same CD from there, it will count because you are streaming it directly from their site and not from your device.
Buy the single when the single comes out so it counts towards the sales of that single and it's position on the Hot 100 chart, which is probably as important as anything else for the success of a song. When the album is released buy the album but I would recommend not doing so through the "complete my album" feature but rather buy the single through one venue (like amazon or rhapsody) and then buy the album through another venue (iTunes since iTunes is the most used site for music digital music purchases at the moment) because I believe when you do complete my album it deducts the sale of the single off the total for said single (I could be wrong about that but I believe I read that at one time).
My own style is, I buy the single off iTunes and then I buy the actual CD from a store when it comes out and that way I can purchase the singles as they are released on iTunes to help the single sales too.
My advice (for what it's worth and I'm no expert on any of this) is buy the music, be it albums or singles. It takes A LOT of streaming to count as a single (1 sale) sale as noted in the recent chart information. Something like 1500 streams counts as a single album sale.
IMO The streaming is designed to capture the pulse of the music listener that doesn't necessarily buy albums (most casual fans usually) but they still consume music. I feel like counting the streaming is a way around the problem illegal downloading causes because people who now stream instead of stealing also get credited to the artist.
Please note this is all just my opinion and I am not trying to tell anyone what to do nor am I trying to present myself as some kind of expert on the subject.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:23:50 GMT -5
Checkout the Moon Phases for April! "Waning crescent" on April 13th-16th. I am not implying that Adam would choose his single release based on moon phases. However, I do think his clues might be pointing towards certain celestial things, for us, so we can pin down the dates.
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Post by adamrocks on Mar 19, 2015 13:25:39 GMT -5
New to me, too. Do we have this in a larger size? Sorry so late in answering you Cassie but I just got back on the thread. That was the size that would post...I clicked it hoping it wold give a bigger size to post but it wouldn't and I don't know how to enlarge it. ETA: LOL! I just found this .......Here it is from Lilybop: Lilybop lilybop2010 13m13 minutes ago .@glamdianee Cute! New to me pic of @milestougeaux @adamlambert lilybop.smugmug.com/Other-11/March-2015/i-dCB9qqX/0/O/EBER%20ADAM%20via%20GlamDianee.jpg …
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 19, 2015 13:27:07 GMT -5
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Post by Craazyforadam on Mar 19, 2015 13:30:53 GMT -5
Lots of great info today, thanks.
One clarifying question for Glitter:
If I have purchased a single (through either i-tunes or Amazon or both) and it now resides either physically on my PC (i-tunes library, etc) or alternatively on the cloud, but with ownership reference information available on my PC, can I then still stream that very same single by going through Spotify? Or does Spotify recognize my ownership and therefore switch to behaving like some media player on my own PC, and play it from there, instead of stream?
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Post by wal on Mar 19, 2015 13:36:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:38:57 GMT -5
Yes, Evergreen, you're right....Nile picked the release day way back because of the Equinox, etc...... I think they were just commenting that the days chosen aren't set in stone as a Tues...and a video might debut on the same day as the single. I think I may be confusing what to do to help the single versus what to do to help the album later on. Other than buy one DL of the first single from Itunes (or gift some that somebody will DL so they'll count as sold) and buy another DL from Amazon....that's all I can "buy" now. So, streaming the single, or an occasional Shazam, does exactly what? Will the single rise up the Billboard charts or itunes charts, etc. based on purchases of DLs and streams? 1,500 streams count as one album sale.......I understand that.....and 10 DLs of a single counts as an album sale. But how many streams = a single DL? But all the album charts, sales, ranking, etc. will happen later when the album is released. Seems talk of singles and albums is all mixed together. So, seems, right now.....we should only be concerned about the new single.....right? Found this on the RIAA site. I assume Billboard uses the same criteria 100 on-demand audio and/or video streams will count as 1 Unit for certification purposes.
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