i understand why she is doing this but this won't change. Music is changing, the industry is changing. I think she should've kept her albums there but not put 1989 there. Like, there's really no point.............

Spotify is for singles artists.

omg, it just appeared a HUGE video as advertisement in this page, let me ADBLOCKPLUS ha

Probably her manager saw her strong album sales and said **** Spotify, but I do think it's a mistake. She's losing money on streams of her older material, in addition, a lot of those Spotify streams will go to random Youtube/Tumblr fan uploads that she won't make money on.

If Spotify continues to pick up steam I expect her to return.

tbh

of a business savvy artist, yes

Initially it looks very selfish but who knows what's really going on behind the scenes.

Is it true that song writers don't get enough of a cut?

Lol @ her top tracks being Safe & Sound + Love Story

Wait.This is very desperate tbh.

Sistren is obviously pressed

This tbh.

The point is she shouldn't HAVE to do all that to make money. She's a songwriter and musician first, she should be making money off of MUSIC sales. That's what she's in this business for.

And to hell with fragrances and tours and sponsorships. What about smaller artists that aren't big enough to sell fragrances and billions of dollars worth of merch, and sell out madison square garden? They're literally screwed in the ass by Spotify every time someone plays their song. This is about way more than Taylor's sales. She doesn't need Spotify to make money, her music will sell regardless of what service she uses (spotify, google play, itunes, amazon, etc). This is about the industry as a whole and getting songwriters, producers and artists the FAIR payment that they DESERVE for their hard work.

You wouldn't expect to do your job for free. You wouldn't ask a plumber to spend weeks fixing your bathroom for one dollar. You wouldn't ask a lawyer to represent you through a trial for one dollar. So why is it ok for us to expect musicians to hand out their music for free? They work just as hard at their job as anyone else and smaller artists (i.e. the MAJORITY of the music industry) needs more than a 1 dollar check to put food on the table.

Actually hilarious that the Lord is selling 1.3M+ of Her album in 1 week and y'all want to educate Her on how the music industry works. Like, stay in your lanes.

I think she is going Tom Yorke way which she thinks would support struggling artists.

The thing is, it's not good enough. You should really google the criticism on music streaming before making ignorant comments like that.

Good for her to be honest. A ton of writers, producers, session musicians, etc are against streaming because they don't get money from it. Streaming is a huge factor in what's hurting album sales, and I'd like to see a shift towards how it used to be with people buying it, and valuing it more.

She's about to beat Britney's record, like why would she be pressed