Oh my gosh I heard 22 on the radio this afternoon and me and my mum were getting our LIVES that song has never slayed me to hard as much as it did today, not even at the Red Tour. Here for album 5's Max Martin hymns.
Taylor should not go on spotify. Artists get barely anything from streaming sites like Spotify. Why would she go on Spotify when she can sell 1.2 million albums in the US alone in week 1? And that is with an album priced at a premium. Taylor should only release to streaming 6 months or so after release. Why should Spotify get a cut of the profits from Taylor's music? What Taylor should do with Spotify is INVEST in it, like Justin Bieber did. As a shareholder, she would benefit from all the streaming, as it is Spotify as the middle-men who take a slice of the profit.
Spotify pay out a measly $0.007 per play on average. Taylor's tracks on iTunes US are $1.29 each. So a track would have to be streamed on average 185 times before it was the equivalent to the purchase price of one purchase on iTunes. You'd have to be a hard-core stan or really like a track to stream it 185 times and those people are likely to buy it anyway. Taylor is a major artist so she could probably get more revenue per play than the average artist but it is still a miniscule amount compared to sales revenues. Also Taylor has just spoken out on WSJ against free music, so she won't then allow her tracks to be on Spotify until months after release.
You are so right!I love people who can back up shite with numbers, You Rock! A week before "Red" was released there were critics saying Taylor was making a big mistake for not releasing songs on Spotify. Oops! she sold 1.2 mil albums the first week and broke a record (only female to sell over 1 mil albums in a week, twice)
Taylor might not embrace spotify but have you ever thought maybe that's the reason her albums sell over 4m in the US alone?
Thank you. Everyone trying to figure out why this girl consistenly sells over 5 mill albums. Did anyone read Jezebel's take today?
Someone probably mentioned already, but I read
Thank you. Everyone trying to figure out why this girl consistenly sells over 5 mill albums. Did anyone read Jezebel's take today?
Someone probably mentioned already, but I read
Ok Atrl, didn't finish my post or spell check.
Consistently... but I read from the last page and go back.
I don't get it, if Taylor is leaving the country world for good, why T-Paine??, T-Paine is country, T-Paine is nashville. she has deep connections with the country world, but not with the pop world. Why not, for example, Katy's management?
Excellent post & comments, all. Swift's less-sexualized commercial persona is incredibly savvy counter-marketing. Do I believe that it is a reflection of her true self? Mostly. She seems to have less of a hang-up about it than Miley, Katie, Selena - her contemporaries - who all seem to be fighting for attention "right NOW!" rather than planning maneuvers to keep it in the long run. Miley, Katy, et al are powerful elixirs but none if them are ground-breaking. They're fun party drugs that sometimes leave you with a wicked hangover.
In this way, I think Swift has absolutely modeled her career after Bey's. Both women are charting their journey in more honest ways. Bey has grown as she's aged in a way that makes her post-Blue sexual persona highly relatable - to her longtime fans. It frightens the casual, Bill O'Reilly listener - but that's not her concern. Swift's arc seems right where it should be for an early 20-something singer songwriter. Casual listeners may write her off as "sweet" but her fans understand and relate to her need to catalog even the emotions that don't require naked wrecking ball rides.
I don't get it, if Taylor is leaving the country world for good, why T-Paine??, T-Paine is country, T-Paine is nashville. she has deep connections with the country world, but not with the pop world. Why not, for example, Katy's management?
This smells like the start of a conspiracy theory!
that song has never slayed me to hard as much as it did today, not even at the Red Tour. Here for album 5's Max Martin hymns. 
Wouldn't even fit a small baby.
