Who's joining Apple Music Tuesday?

it would be very nice if they managed to get artists paid, I imagine the quality of content would elevate with the incentive of actually getting paid... imaging that 

I've only used Spotify once...Is this better? I'm still wrapping my head around it a bit. It's missing a couple of albums that I've looked for so far...but it's pretty awesome to think of a song and then play it.

The tab between My Music and All is pretty great.

Even for my favorite bands, there's always some material I don't have. Then often there's the bands I've been meaning to listen to more on lower right under influences.

Ruh Roh...I'm trying to listen...looks like it's stuck "connecting to store"...I would imagine their servers are getting SWAMPED right now.

Ok - I'm a guy that - like I said - was not a record buyer. In fact, when in the recent EVH interview he said he never listened to music, I thought, "damn...me neither..." Anyway, this has just been awesome to go from Otis Redding to They Might Be Giants to Jason Isbell to Def Lepard to Theloniuos Monk to AC/DC to Trisha Yearwood to Blue Oyster Cult to...well, you get the point. Makes me want to make music again...and GOD I need that.

I am in Indonesia and this is great!

I went straight to the Indonesian playlist.

You've finally seen the light of streaming. A naysayer has been converted.

I don't really see how this is going to change everything though. Beyonce, Swift, Kanye, Bro Country, all these people leading the Billboard charts and getting the terrestrial radio spins are still going to be the top dogs here. The general population gained access to the entire music catalog years ago with Spotify and Ke$ha stayed on top. The masses aren't going to suddenly develop taste with Apple's streaming service.

Most people here hate all this pop/rap/dance "music" made by these untalented "hacks". You are in the minority. The general population likes this stuff because it's catchy, memorable, and they can grind on each other in the clubs while it's playing. Unfortunately, good music succeeding will always be the exception, not the rule.

Maybe I didn't make it clear that there's a huge difference between what people will say they like and what they will actually plunk down money to buy which is often a lot less fashion-oriented. I will say I think Beats-1 is more listenable than our local "alternative" station.

I've never been confused about whether it would be cool to have every song you ever wanted at your disposal...the problem was Spoitfy and Pandora wasn't paying for it.

Given how Apple Corp has treated musicians like Talor Swift, I'm not inclined to support them here. Then again, I don't own any Apple products. They always seemed "too cool for school" while exploiting foreign cheap labor like a tennis shoe maker.

My in-laws are from Boston and are total Apple geeks, they won't buy anything not Apple. I guess we cancel each other out?

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IMO, the only valuable contribution Taylor Swift has ever made to music is getting apple to pay artists during their 3 months free trail period, I love her for that! One thing i will say for apple, is they are creative, and they seem to appreciate a higher quality standard, if you've ever opened up a mac pro tower, it's astonishingly beautifully built, it makes ANY pc look like a joke inside, and i won't get into how much better the OS is, hopefully they will maintain that model and fair compensation will be passed on to music creators, perhaps leading to improved content for those of us who enjoy originality, honest creativity, and walk upright haha? here's to hoping.

Yeah, well they have Apple watches that cost $20k, I"d consider that too cool for school. But, with their computers and phones theres actual quality in those products. I mean they came up with the concept of putting all their devices in rigid aluminum, and I know it's saved my ass countless times when I would drop my macbook or iPhone. One thing, Apple has always been a music company, they are heavily involved with a lot of the music industry, if they were to short anyone it would ruin them, and quickly. You saw what happened with Taylor and how fast they completely re-wrote the start-up of Apple Music. They will pay what they say they will pay and I can't see them using any sleezy loopholes to fuck over people either. The leadership at Apple seems to be staying true, Jobs was honestly an ambassador for the music business, he made us all a lot of money with the iPod and iTunes when pirating started, he found a way to make it so people would still want to pay for music. This is really similar, if you look at how they've set this up, people are going to want to keep those subscriptions after the trial, once the connect and community become a part of people's lives they'll never want to give that up. For $15.99 6 people in a family can have this, and for $9.99 single folks can, of course they'll keep paying and it'll become the "too cool for school" fad that people want to be a part of, a new culture, a new idea for those that don't place value on music. I think Apple thought, "if we can't get them to value music, we'll create a community they will value." This is brilliant, and there's no way Spotify will keep up with this either, they are a drop in the bucket compared to Apple's number of members. I could really see a very large majority of Apples members joining this, if not damn near all. Streaming has become the way people really want their music delivered. The beauty of Apple Music is they are creating a culture around the streaming, almost like the same culture that sat in front of the record player reading the record jacket while they listened to the tunes. Now people can start listening to an album and dive into the a community about it, allowing them to connect (good name apple) with music again. Clearly you guys have to see Apple cares about the music industry, just look at how this thing is set up, you can see they are trying to fix this.

I'm an optimist, everytime something like this comes along I want to speak positive about it and I want it to help change the way this crazy ass business has become. I want those days of budgets that actually allowed creativity and people like me to make a nice living doing this, and don't say those days are gone, because if the money comes back those days are not gone.