she's supposed to be an artist not just some cold calculated business woman. At some point it should be about wanting her music spread and making it as accessible to her fans as possible. Seems she's only interested in how much money she can milk from her fans.

And if spotify is good enough for other artists(95% of whom are way way poorer than her) then it should be good enough for her.

I hope other artists follow her. They get nothing from people listening to their music on Spotify. Taylor setting new trends I hope

Good girl

She's not setting new trends she's stubbornly refusing to go along with the inevitable. The future is not in record sales its in streaming. Theres no going backwards.

Not as far as Taylor's concerned, like come on!

She removed it since last week. I thought it was already threaded.

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People who expect to listen to thousands of songs for only $10 dollars a month are the greedy ones. Music wasn't supposed to be this cheap. Taylor's trying to send a message.

There are many artists who have always refused to put their albums on Spotify. She isn't setting any trends here.

I am going to disagree with this statement. People have bought it before without listening on Spotify. iTunes and Amazon and others offer up snippets. If Spotify can't pay artists and record companies reasonably then they need to find away to. That's ultimately going to determine the success or failure of spotify.

Ugh, Spotify is so embarrassing. We know you're **** for the industry and it's been proven time and again. Stop acting like artists who don't cooperate with your service are denying fans some kind of right

Taylor last week (or was the it the week before) saw all of her albums reenter the Billboard 200. There's still demand for them.

Exactly. People forget that music isn't free.
But on one hand, iTunes charges too much and on the another Sptify pays the artists too little (something like 1¢ every 10 plays)

You guys whine and moan about the abysmal record sales this year but then you turn around and go support Spotify when someone big like Taylor tries to take a stand against them. Do you realize how much artists/songwriters/producers ACTUALLY get from Spotify streaming? It's close to nothing. These people work their asses off to make music. The fact that they "make money from touring and merchandise and sponsor deals" is completely irrelevant because they shouldn't HAVE to do all that to make money. They're musicians, they should be making money from music.

And what about all the smaller artists who don't have big major labels backing them, but still have to pay a huge cut to Spotify and to their label, and they don't get billions of streams like Taylor or Gaga or Katy? They're really the ones losing here, not the big guys. If anything, Taylor is doing this for the industry, not for herself. She doesn't need it.

I don't know what the solution to the problem is. Maybe Spotify needs to raise their subscription price. Maybe get rid of the free model like Google Play. Maybe limit people to only streaming the album a certain number of times before forcing them to pay up? I don't know, but the current model is clearly not working. Props to Taylor for taking a stand.

Except she's the biggest of them all.

It's still on Google Play Music All Access! I guess that's because EVERYONE is paying for that service, unlike Spotify.

I agree with this, I don't hate spotify, but they need to find a middle ground. a check for one dollar is just disrespectful

Poor her