Apple Music’s top executive Oliver Schusser weighed in on the cost of music during a keynote interview at the National Music Publisher Association’s annual meeting in New York on Wednesday, questioning how competing streaming platforms are still offering free tiers and suggesting it devalues music as an art form.
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free,” Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and international content, told NMPA CEO David Israelite during their discussion Wednesday evening. “We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service. As a company, we look at music as art, and we would never want to give away art for free.
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“It makes no sense to me,” Schusser continued. “We don’t have a free service, we will not have one, we have no plans for one.”
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