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A1 post and I agree with all of this. I'm sure labels have a lot to do with their artist's involvement as far as the things you mentioned such as playlist, and curations and what not. Makes total sense and I've always believed that.This isn't specifically about Apple, but
An article I was reading brought up a good point about streaming numbers.
A lot of the numbers come from the curated playlists that Spotify/Apple/TIDAL create potentially with label involvement.
There is a lot of people who only stream those playlists and don't even have a paid Spotify account, they treat it as their radio. I know some people just let Pandora or Spotify play whatever, they pick a genre or initial song and Spotify generates a playlist.
A lot of those playlists don't change for months so that can stop other songs from organically getting traction. Just something to consider.
But then again, streaming can't be ignored because that's how most people consume music now.
The last part rings most true. No matter how flawed streaming may be, it can't be ignored.