Why JME Won't Release His Music

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[@Alreadydone134]

Jme and Skepta was born with perfect grime voices

[@Nellinumber9]

Releasing music? Man don’t care about all that

[@Thestraightyoutuber]

This was cringe

[@yoyoyoyoyoyo6]

He doesn’t like releasing music because his musics shit and won’t get views

[@your_fav_british_brunette]

@@yoyoyoyoyoyo6you clearly haven’t heard is music

[@jeaninepalstra1684]

@@yoyoyoyoyoyo6cmon bro

[@AweSomeGamerzFTW]

@@yoyoyoyoyoyo6you must be pressed when he’s got 100k on his dryest songs and 100m on his most popular

[@Al-Brewster]

The moral of his point is, if you really love the artist and their work, go to their shows, because, that's where they get the most reward from their work. They also feel the appreciation of the fans who support them.

[@PotatoAimNr1]

I feel this is unfair to people who aren't close to where ever these shows are. JME is one of my favourite artists.

[@andrive]

Why would I fly out to the other side of the world just for a cd. Thats like reverse ebay

[@jwnwiwhebwoeb]

Doesn't matter what they feel, it's his thing

[@gregordrizzlewing7339]

@@jwnwiwhebwoebit is but it works both ways. You can’t expect people to travel to x and spend y when you’re playing z at your concerts. Imagine travelling multiple miles and spending a couple hundred quid to listen to something you’ve heard over 1,000 times 5+ years ago?

[@PotatoAimNr1]

@@andrive I'mnot expecting him to fly out to the other side of the world. I would really like him to release more music. But, I do love the music that has out rn. His own music or music where he features. I just would like more tbh.

[@Bing-a-ling]

Is it fair that we get to listen to his work for a fraction of a penny?? If you want the music and want to support the artist, buy the vinyl. The sounds better anyway

[@genshishio9316]

He’s right, I don’t care enough to pay or be inconvenienced to listen to his music. Hope he has a lot of people that do though, he’s a dope artist.

[@massapin9293]

Jamie bro, trust me, a lot of us do care. I've seen you + BBK at least 10 times, I still would love to hear you release something new.

[@SuicidalMonkey]

Create your own website and generate traffic for advertising or set up a subscription?

[@XCILE625]

He’s only indifferent to releasing music because he doesn’t make much money off it, which is fair but that’s the game

[@FbYd]

Why would someone make a whole new account download app and subscribe just to listen to JME

[@5ivestar65]

You can’t do that if you aren’t as big of an artist. Kanye is attempting to do or at least looking into the idea of it, and even that’s getting backlash from people saying they cba to have another app just for Kanye music, let alone JME. James Blake has also just launched an App in collaboration with a company to attempt to do this. It’s not so easy if you don’t have the leverage, and multiple of the biggest artists would have to get on board. Jay Z also tried this with tidal, which pays artists better than any other platform, Kanye even exclusively released his album there first, yet it didn’t do all too much in the grand scheme.

[@zairethinker]

for his core fans, you are not the demo@@FbYd

[@BoostyGeoff]

​@@FbYdif it was the only place he put out his new stuff everyone would u gimp...

[@socialassassin_]

I’m so glad I still download music

[@alextv293]

You know my man has too much bread that he doesn’t even have to do his job anymore lol 😅

[@Mad-rg9sz]

Not even. He's well off but ain't no multimillionaire. He just doesn't care about money and thinks its wrong he does all the work for non of the money.

[@leofath644]

I don't even know who that is

[@DownStairs-ys7zc]

@@Mad-rg9sz his net worth is 6m he’s said before he’s a multimillionaire from his music and deals and connections with the sidemen and record labels ????

[@jad4995]

He posted £1m in his bank account on twitter years ago he probably has more now through his investments JME is probably one of the smartest artist in the scene

[@martyrx3436]

You didn’t listen at all, did you?

[@adichatterjee]

I love JME but this is stupid. The world isn’t just UK brother. Bro doesn’t care about his fans that are worldwide and can’t afford to do all that 😭 pisstake

[@michaelanako5246]

You're just proving his point

[@nighthunterx445]

@@michaelanako5246no he’s not😂 this is a garbage take. Dude doesn’t even care about the people who made him successful in the first place

[@paulfletcher3998]

@adichatterjee Would you be prepared to work and get paid a fraction of what you're worth? I highly doubt it.

[@minorears5205]

@@paulfletcher3998But you're not paid a fraction if you get the numbers? The more people that listen means the more your music spreads, the greater your influence and the more you can tour which is where the real money is made. This take from JME doesn't make sense.

[@paulfletcher3998]

​@@minorears5205 You are still paid a fraction if you get the numbers. I watched an interview with Snopp Dogg after he brought Deathrow. For 1 billion streams he was paid $45k. I doubt many artists get over 1 billion views. Streaming services are a scam.

[@DhavalPateldp]

Spotify is for advertising your music for your live shows to gain new listeners etc. Put on ad rev on your youtube videos for songs, put your songs out for royalty usage etc. just making the song aint enough...you still have to work to perfom it on tour...thats where tour money should come after gaining a worldwide audience or get it into movies/tv/radio/youtube videos for royalty usage

[@jfanz3521]

I live in Australia which makes going to a show real god damn difficult. Maybe one day.

[@AlkatrazNZ]

has man not heard of Bandcamp? i miss jamming out JME dub/grime tings

[@andrewmcfarlane9835]

I would love for him to do a show in Belfast or in ni in general

[@Slowclicks]

He don’t like getting comments on his shit either 😂

[@thinhenson2182]

Yep, fuck anyone who is not a real listener. Real listeners are those who show up for the show, buy your merch, cds, whatever - they are the ones who is making him money and artist really should listen only to those people. People who don't do it don't matter, for example I live in Ukraine 2000 miles away from him, and for us even 10 pounds is a substantial amount of money, and I expect him not to listen to shit I talk, it's just the way it is.

[@Slowclicks]

@@thinhenson2182 stay safe sir

[@Cuz_lufc]

Turn up and buy the music.....but you aren't releasing the music for them to buy 😆

[@lilsisgay]

he still makes CDs and whatnot. but sold at his shows.

[@SamraySimon-fy7sq]

The most logical conclusion

[@gruffen2222]

If he releases CDs man will buy them.

[@PotatoAimNr1]

Nah man, CD's are going out of business.

[@Wavyyyaf]

Terrible idea hahaha

[@MannYSJ1080p]

Cd is dead

[@amateurgenius8486]

Gotta get a day job instead.​@@MannYSJ1080p

[@Dhilan100]

He can set up a website and release it through that and sell his music.

[@rjfb973]

Kinda agree, but equally if one or two of those songs blows up like they have in the past that will increase your reputation allowing you to put on bigger shows etc. It's a two way street

[@sean_wfc]

The music industry is just the reverse of what it used to be. You used to have to go from town to town playing live for little money before you could get a record deal and start selling records to make money. Now anyone can release music online. Once you become big, you charge a lot to play live to make your money.

[@machiel5888]

I listen to all my music on Vinyl or CD. unless I'm travelling.

[@Sandwichhandler]

This guy never heard of a website?

[@jimbojimbo6873]

You think anyone would go to a website to listen to the song

[@bestofgrime7723]

@Sandwichhandler. Are you serious ? Do you know how expensive that would be lol ? Who is gonna go to a specific website for a single song instead of the services already avaialible ? Stick to handling sandwiches mate you have absolutely no idea what your talking about I can see why your a sandwich handler not a sandwich maker...

[@CTCF17]

@@bestofgrime7723bro apart from going on a rant over one small question, you also think websites are expensive 😆😆😆

[@optimised.]

@@bestofgrime7723get a grip

[@salt-emoji]

​@@jimbojimbo6873 Spotify? Sounds cloud? Yeah those aren't websites. Y'all doing it wrong.

[@kmst8]

What about people who physically can’t hit up your shows to cop the music

[@olliemunchies]

Damn man, sounds like working....

[@GMEunpluged]

Actually with how easy it is to create your own platform for distribution i kinda disagree but you do need to fork out to pay for dev work and infra equip if yoh want to host privately and have your own kit in DC's

[@oussamaokbi]

It's not that we don't care jme, we don't live in the uk xD. Do it for us PLEASE

[@TroopeRVids]

ngl i get what he saying about getting paid but its kinda selfish when alot of his fans cant go to his shows and arent able to listen to new music. so bascially just release the music ffs

[@JamesHanks]

i think his point is basically, fuck spotify. and that just cos u pay for spotify, that doesnt entitle u to his music

[@danieloneill10]

This is called biting your nose off to spite your face.

[@KairuHD]

I get the perspective but what about the lads from down under we can’t rock up to shows, in saying that any tune we get is even more special when it drops

[@james6247]

Can’t go to shows if you don’t travel to other countries 😅

[@Wizardary1]

Why can’t you jme. Branch out 🌴

[@younglegend9569]

So basically he doesn’t love the craft of music but the money he gets from it. Loving music means doing music and putting it out there for people to enjoy. The money will come. If you focus only on Ps then you might never actually get anywhere.

[@isaacjones5687]

It’s not 2010 anymore mate, worlds changed

[@timmy5876]

but i’m not gonna go to a JME show unless he’s releasing new music, think about how many fans have already seen him live so there’s no point them seeing him again. Him releasing new songs makes people wanna see him live and it grows him as an artist so more people want to go to his shows. Let’s say he drops a song and it goes number 1, his show sales would go through the roof and he’d benefit that way. I get what he’s saying to an extent but he wouldn’t be where he is now selling and shows if he didn’t release music initially

[@LL-rc2ol]

this what Kanye and James blake talking about ❤

[@ChezzShorts3644]

just make the music and bang it on your own youtube channel fan base big enough youll get paid

[@DaKiffster]

Serious

[@MFaintReal]

Never noticed it but JME sounds hella zesty wtf

[@SmoothTsunami]

"If they really care, they'll turn up at the shows" as much as I like this brudda and respect him, this one line speaks volumes, what if people don't have the money, what if people don't have the time, what if people live halfway across the world?

[@Link________]

if you're there you're there

[@SmoothTsunami]

@@Link________ great contribution

[@salt-emoji]

Nah bro. That's dumb. "I want 100% of the revenue without sharing" not how economy works. Let him get buried by more accessible artists willing to take the L to build their brand.

[@JamesHanks]

just cos something doesnt work a particular way currently, you should just fkn accept it and not challenge it? i think thats dumb as

[@neoloanderson6676]

Releasing music means something when you make money basically.

[@DG.2030]

Basically he’s saying that he doesn’t have enough fans that will buy his music for him to be posting stuff. He’s also embarrassed by the amount of actual people that will buy his music. Probably in the low thousands. Just being very honest

[@jm_cruiseryt3771]

Then make your own thing then stop complaining about nothing

[@gracealexander2876]

He’s not complaining wtf they asked why he doesn’t release… bro didn’t start the rant just because

[@kerke4639]

Well how about fans that can’t afford the shows, make time for the shows are just too far away to see the shows? Streaming is literally for the people to listen to any music at any time. That’s the whole concept. The shows are an experience beyond just listening to it

[@dorianclaeys4097]

Man thinks everybody is from the UK and can come to his shows

[@ianhayes3980]

How are we meant to buy the music when you don't release any music for us to buy? We already brought all your old stuff if you are going to be making music anyways then why nit just release it to the public so we can actually buy the bloody thing

[@Gadwastaken]

All i hear is i aint making money cause i don't promote my shit or in a shit deal and care enough about my fans to do this independently

[@Jkobe2345]

He could acc make his own streaming platform lol

[@ominusxl304]

I honestly don’t understand where he’s coming from the internet is a big place what’s stopping you from making your own platform? Aiden Ross did it? Twitch did it, you tube did it, limiting your self from the get go

[@albertsoko1626]

I now understand Frank Ocean.

[@isaacjones5687]

Not the same situation. Frank finessed $20M from his record label, and didn’t have to release. Frank can afford to release his music however he wants. But for JME this is the majority of his income and he’s probably spending more than he’s earning from releasing his music on a website or on streaming

[@alex62965]

All the streaming services pay £0.000001 per 1 listen the top people dont get payed shit

[@BR-tc3nm]

Bandcamp bruv

[@mattgreen2398]

It’s beyond true every word , why compete in that market , make your own market …

[@paulcasey4282]

Because not everyone can afford to travel across the world to see him in a concert. If he’s doing it for money then fair play though

[@spa2damax]

He absolutely can start and has access to his own shop they own the label lol. Do limited physical releases or bandcamp exclusives

[@ElementlSynd]

I fw you jme like a whole lot but i work 9to5 and i am barely able to live my life lmao how im i suppose to fly out across the ocean .......

[@copolar]

This is a bad take, if u think listeners dont care about their artists' music, maybe its just because your listeners dont care about your music, when my favorite artists release an album or even just a single im stoked, sometimes it makes my entire year, at the same time what is valid is that releasing music nowadays is not enough monetarily speaking and that sucks, but the whole package is a crazy bad take

[@Lilpeepkinn]

Bro thinks I’m just gonna hop on a train for hours to then get in a plane to another country to attend his show which I’d have to get a hotel for after as well cause I’d be exhausted having to travel back immediately. Hella expensive and a waste of my time.

[@oliverdonaghy4689]

No that's not true..not everyone likes gigs...band together n change the industry

[@SP-yw7yj]

Some sources say shiva didnt have any gender either

[@TurtleHouse]

Yeah but I live in Aus and you never coming to shows here so what's man supposed to do with that? Spend bare p on shipping for one song and music video on a USB every time you make something? (Which I did)

[@TFrancis-ev1lo]

Why not yes you can mate

[@ThatsQuiteNice]

If they want to listen to the songs they can just come to the shows 😂 your not just a london based rapper bro not everyone in the world can get there 😂

[@owaisfs]

Love JME but this doesn't make sense

[@Slay-R]

So let's find a solution

[@Vii7aL]

Thought you weren't tied to a label? That was yours and skeptas flex, if you aren't tied to a label make an album and don't release it on streaming platforms

[@kieranwalker1850]

Bro said buy the music how we going to do that stupid

[@borino6216]

0.002p in the uk

[@isaacmili5222]

it's not even the guy who made the app whos a billionaire it's the guy who hired engineers. ppl w money use money to make more money off of other ppls labour ppl who labour make money for ppl bc they got the money already. capitalism init

[@anthonyyHD1]

Doesn't wanna make 0.0005P so rather make nothing and not give new music to fans?

[@iluvdissheet]

Sounds like he doesnt like the pay.

[@AR_EBK]

Spotify killed the misic industry

[@junknown4800]

Patreon and shit like that only fans ur tunes raggo..

[@thecountysfinest]

Just saying I'm Australian I care but I'm not gonna travel to London for a show

[@paulmeakin6476]

It's mad

[@V-O-V]

It has literally never been easier to run a shop that ships worldwide hes just talking shite.

[@YoungMzz]

“If they really cared the would turn up at shows” some ppl don’t have the money to spend like a bills on a show guy fell off and got too big for his boots acting like he isn’t just skeptas little brother

[@tropicalnofruit1419]

The mental gymnastics because he can’t chart is wild

[@BoostyGeoff]

Bros making bare excuses and non of them have any logic to them... bro can produce his own tracks independently and release them on his own independant website and offer to stream them from there or at least for people to be able to buy them and download them so they can have them on there devices but bro chooses not to because he is comfy where he is and because the aeformentioned is effort. He could do that all independantly and keep the majority of the pie but bros just being lazy lets be real...

[@Shduebausb28]

So much waffle

[@capitalcrud9062]

Take note when JME says these things…the industry is now worse for artists

[@Pibikhen]

With how easy it is to download music without the artist getting anything at all, I don't think there's an easy solution. Before spotify piracy was rampant, the same could be said before Netflix came along and that's on the rise again now there's so many new streaming platforms. The solution needs to be frictionless, affordable and comprehensive. That isn't going to happen any time soon. That means the pressure needs to be applied to the labels, as Spotify isn't even profitable while paying so little.

[@ajbacon125]

So his main reason not to release it is money? But he also believes money doesn’t exist?

[@superwill3524]

He doesn’t believe in himself. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@YouCantBeatDan]

Bro Spotify loses money as a business

[@tajsdiscord5952]

Just waffle

[@brandonking2679]

Dude fell off

[@bestofgrime7723]

Your clueless....

[@alextv293]

@@bestofgrime7723you’re* x

[@brandonking2679]

@@bestofgrime7723 what he’s popping still yeah ? Bro this isn’t 2014

[@harryfoster9184]

@@brandonking2679he didn’t fall off bro he’s chilling😂 how can you fall off when you don’t even release music, last time he stopped was in like 2022 and it banged, if he drops tomorrow it’ll bang too, bro is clear

[@brandonking2679]

@@harryfoster9184 not releasing music is falling off bro.Who are you Jammer?! trying to defend him lol

[@ToffeeAppleBandLTD]

Everything he says makes zero sense. You can’t be an artist an not release music. That’s ridiculous

[@pearse6104]

Kinda shows he doesn’t care about the consumer. Spotify is consumer friendly because it opens the world of music more

[@JamesHanks]

he's saying fuck spotify because they dont care about the artists. just cos its popular doesnt mean everyone should have to submit to it

[@OfficialSkankHunt42]

Honestly one of the worst takes of all time, you make zero sense. Not putting the music up just makes you less money, the big man still has his hands deep inside your pockets regardless. It’s literally only about whether you want to take the time to post your music for your fans

[@JamesHanks]

all he's saying is fuck spotify and the way teh actual artists are treated in the industy. he could very easily upload his music in about 7 seconds its not about him not taking the time

[@OfficialSkankHunt42]

@@JamesHanks I wasn’t saying it was about time I was saying it as the only difference is him not wanting to post his music for his fans. The only difference is he makes less money and his fans get screwed over harder

[@ampfu]

So does he have a day job?

[@Nathann99]

Yeah because it’s so easy to invent the platform to release your music on 😂

[@DG___508]

JME spoke a lot of waffle on this podcast

[@TVsez]

Overrated

[@ArloRenzoDarlo]

Woe is me, lazy

[@harryfoster9184]

You’re telling me that you wanting to be able to create art for your own enjoyment as a passion, instead of pimping yourself out to streaming companies, is lazy?

[@ArloRenzoDarlo]

@@harryfoster9184 mental barrier👀 if you believe you can't change anything you're as basic as a non voter

[@harryfoster9184]

@@ArloRenzoDarlo you’re missing the point completely brother, he’s doing what he likes to do and not doing what he doesn’t like to do, what’s the problem?

[@yeahyeah4433]

@@ArloRenzoDarlo you’re talking about massive companies and labels, they squeeze money out of artists and have a lot of shady ways of doing things, to change them would only come from the inside or the government, quite simply.

[@oskaradamczyk113]

Man don’t care

[@Ad07326]

So he just wants money??

[@-I_am_Him-]

His music is mid so it's good that he doesn't release his music. No one will listen to it

[@DocRobotnik]

This is the dumbest take I've seen in a while. Your art is worth that people will pay for it. It sounds like the kid's angry that it's not the 90s anymore and he can't charge people £15 for an album. Of course making an app that's used by hundreds of millions of people is worth more than your music 🤦‍♂️ Honestly, it's sad for you that being a musician isn't as lucrative as it used to be, but I've got no sympathy for that argument. Art is worth what people are willing to pay for it

[@RickFlairWooo]

Because nobody will buy it

[@200m-z8y]

What a spoiled brat 😂