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Apple Music and Beats 1

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ben Ratliff and Ben Sisario discuss Apple Music, the much-anticipated music-streaming service to be launched June 30.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I could show you incredible things.

0:05.0

Welcome to the New York Times pop cast, your Venus fly trap of music news and cloud-based

0:10.4

broadcasting, and your host Ben Ratliff. That, duh, was a student tie, I can read you like a magazine,

0:27.0

in it, funny rumors lie.

0:28.0

And I know you heard about me.

0:30.0

That, duh, was Blank space by Taylor Swift, who's been in the news recently because she seemed to be, well, she was,

0:40.0

withholding her record 1989 from Apple Music, which is set to be released as the next major

0:49.9

Internet streaming service on Tuesday, and she has just reversed that decision because

0:56.8

Apple changed its idea about what it wanted to do.

1:01.2

To explain all of this and more and the direction of Apple towards radio, internet radio,

1:11.0

is our music business reporter Ben Cesario.

1:13.0

Hey Ben.

1:14.0

Hello.

1:15.0

Ben, you've been sort of following the contours of this thing

1:18.0

as it leads up to Tuesday, the big day.

1:22.0

Taylor Swift has commanded the headlines about Apple Music.

1:27.0

Can you just sort of give us a condensed...

1:28.0

Yeah, a praise of what's been going on with her?

1:31.0

Apple is getting ready to launch their music service.

1:34.6

Part of it is a Spotify-type on-demand streaming thing.

1:39.4

And as part of that, they're going to have a 90-day free period where anyone can test it out.

1:45.0

And in the deals that they made with record companies and that they proposed out there,

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