Pink Floyd on a streaming service??? The blokes who sued to stop EMI allowing ITunes to sell individual tracks on SPOTIFY???
That’s the game, especially when you look at it this way: while it only took 4 days for Wish Wou Were Here to be streamed 1M times (the threshold number after which they’d allow the rest of their albums to be streamed), all Pink Floyd got for it was about $6500. Nothing in the PF scehme of things.
According to the Guardian, this is what manger Paul Loasby said in 2012: ” When it came to renewing our deal with EMI, we decided we did not want to go with ad-funded, but agreed to go on subscription ones. But when we went to Spotify’s office in 2010, we were declined – it was all or nothing.”
In 2013, it’s now all. “They decided, quite wisely I think, that this is the future of music consumption, that it helps them reach deep into a demographic that is not their core demographic, and that it’s a place they need to be to secure their legacy.”
Can the Beatles be far away.
In the meanwhile, it is amazing how little material there actually is. A handful of alnbums, some extended and that’s it really.