Well, this means SiriusXM will now play nothing BUT cover-band versions now, not just post 1972. That way they just need to pay royalties on the songs themselves and not the recordings. Much cheaper that way, and apparently today’s youngsters don’t know the difference, anyway. I do, and when I found out what crap SiriusXM played, I dropped them after only a day and got my money back.
The big summer shed concerts now have a number of ‘beatlemania’ recreations of bands like Led Zeppelin (Led Zep 2) and Pink Floyd (Australian Pink Floyd, etc).
The suits are quite willing to let the pre-72 performers go without any money from this decision (which will see to it that the artists are not paid all the way up to 2017).
How many of those pre-72 performers are even going to still be alive in 2018? It’ll be 50 years after 1968. The music that is played on the decade stations stretches back before 1945. Yet the song publishing itself is protected by extended copyrights for 100+ years...
Really? Sirius plays 60s cover versions. I have only listened a few times in rental cars and they played the original versions when I listened, has that changed?
I don’t know what SIRIUS you were listening to, but we have it as part of our Dish package (no extra costs) and I listen about 12-15 hours a day.
Plenty of choices, 70’s, 80’s, classic rewind (Cassette music), The Bridge (James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, etc), Hair Nation, Deep Tracks
I hear songs on here I haven’t heard for years, and compared to Radio today, it’s worth it to never hear the name Kanye, or Beyonce ever again.
Nonsense, XM and now SiriusXM have set the standard in paying royalties since they started up. They are the only ones who do, and will continue to do so. You should get your facts straight before making asinine predictions.
... anyway. I do...
You don't.
I've had XM for 10 years. They have always played the popular versions of songs from the 40's to today.
I bought a new car and have 6 months of free SiriusXM. Listened to about a half hour so far and enjoyed about 4 minutes of it. I put a few thousand tunes on a USB drive and it should take me a couple months to listen to it and hear music I actually enjoy enough to select it...won't renew this SIRIUS any more than I did with the last new car trial I got.