Another clickbait headlines. Yes, I have been
experimenting with things like that. But the whole new world that we see after Corona
starts to be interesting.

I’m in a secret forum with other people in the music
industry and there the chatter right now is much how low Spotify still is in their
payment per stream. At the same time, Spotify just launched that you could have
one account for two people to the price of one. That will not get more money
into Spotify to raise the other. And as many had said the streams are going
down during the crisis since people have stopped listening to music to work and
from work, since they’re not traveling that much.

The other thing I have seen a lot is how the major
companies have embraced Tik Tok all of them have employed you people that are
experts on this new app. We can also see that they are cheating for artists on
there. Saw moderate Swedish artists that no one knows about and is average a
couple of hundred streams on Spotify (with extra help from the recordable wink
wink). Suddenly her American label has put in, so she has over 2 million
followers on Tik Tok, though she really has done nothing new. 

Another big label builds special camps for their
artist to go and learn from Tik Tok stars and of course make collaborations.
And yes Doja Cat is one of the stars that come from this new fun app.

It all feels like okey 2020n is here, let’s get rid of
the old stuff. Facebook is for old people. I mean people. Instagram is for the
hipsters taht think they’re cool but now is actually too old. Twitter is just
going down and just alive for celebrities. No, the young generation that you
can fill some shit music on is Tik Tok. 

Still, will it come back and bit their ass? Just a few
days ago India just banned Tik Tok and a couple of other apps. They said they
were dangerous. Instead, it’s more to get with the incidents in Himalaya where
India and China are not that good friends. Suddenly this app becomes politics.
Even Trump considers banning Tik Tok a guarantee that he will have two million
small kids in front of the white house threatening to kill his whole
generation. And what about that he should close twitter just a couple a weeks
ago, has he forgot that?

Now to the point. Okay there no proof that Tik Tok is
sending data to China. No proof that Spotify does it either. Neither that Zoom
does it. I had a meeting with some Chinese record label people and nothing that
secret or and political stuff. Mainly a trading thing with festivals. But all
of them declined to have the meeting on Zoom. Instead, they use a whole other
app. an old one that I have forgotten but still exists. In my third meeting, I
had to ask why they did not go for Zoom. The answer was simple if you talk
china does not do it in the chine partly own apps. They will get the data.

I guess right now the big labels are in turmoil and
just seek out short-lived careers. Who blames them fast money seems to be the thing!
But when they invest so hard in this app and then suddenly it gets band or even
the Chinese get the info to use against them. Yes, what can they do against an
artist that uses the freedom of speech, yes let them sink or disappear on the
channel they have their fans? Or they can use blackmail to tell how the company
has cheated or prove fake numbers, even if they are not fake numbers.

Yes, the channels have now become political bats, and
that environment and artists should be edgy, good luck with that.