Even before the official launch of Apple Music on June 30, the new music streaming and radio service that Apple plans to establish to compete with other platforms like Spotify or Pandora It already brings with it a controversy over the way in which artists who decide to upload their songs or albums to the service will be paid.
This controversy comes as a result of some statements by singer Taylor Swift who refused to upload her work to Apple Music because the conditions were unfair to the artists so he released the following statements, “We do not ask for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to offer our music without any compensation. Supposedly during the 3-month trial period that new users will enjoy, the artist in question you will not receive any type of payment even if the user makes use of the songs that said artist has uploaded.
However we have been able to know thanks to a Tweet sent by Eddy Cue (SVP of software and services in Apple), that Apple in the end will not apply this clause of the contract when uploading content to its platform by artists and will end up paying even when the songs are used during the trial period . As we can read in the tweet:
Apple will always make sure the artist is paid #iTunes #AppleMusic
#AppleMusic will pay the artist for streaming, even during the client's free trial period
Before to compensate for this 3-month situation, Apple was the company that paid the higher percentages of income subscription service for artists. Now, having changed this policy, it is not known if these percentages will be maintained or in the end the difference will be adjusted and therefore they will receive something less.
