Celeb News: Taylor vs Spotify: TRUTH revealed

tigerlily13

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ADD TAYLOR V. SPOTIFY: WSJ media reporter Hannah Karp advanced the story this morning, stating that Big Machine several months ago asked Spotify to make 1989 available on the streaming service only outside the U.S. The label’s reasoning: that Swift is a giant star in the States, but she’s still trying to expand her fan base abroad. Spotify denied that request, according to Karp’s source, because the service requires all participating artists to make their music available in all of the 58 countries where it operates. The story also points out that labels can pull an individual artist’s work from Spotify with only a few days’ notice, though most labels have long-term contracts that prevent them from abruptly withdrawing all their music. But Karp made two errors, stating that 1989 came out last Tuesday (it was a Monday release), and attributing the news of Scott Borchetta’s $200m asking price for Big Machine to an 11/1 story in the N.Y. Post; HITS’ I.B. Bad broke the story in a column posted on 10/23. (11/4a)

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

Sorry if already posted

Tim£

Do it spotify, block the Americans and let the rest of us hear ha muzik

iHype.

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Spotify denied that request, according to Karp’s source, because the service requires all participating artists to make their music available in all of the 58 countries where it operates.

No it doesn't, lol?

SIO was available WW a week before US, because I clearly remember the threads on 'Taylor's label finally puts SIO on Spotify' for us to find out it still didn't hit US yet.

+ all you legit have to do is go on Spotify, click 'Top Lists' and select other countries charts and half of the tracks won't be available for you because 'The track is currently not available in United States. If you have it on your computer, you can import it'.

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Nemo

In b4 "proof Taylor is local"

Lulu

Not it lowkey saying Taylor is local

Twai

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Originally posted by iHype.

No it doesn't, lol?

SIO was available WW a week before US, because I clearly remember the threads on 'Taylor's label finally puts SIO on Spotify' for us to find out it still didn't hit US yet.

+ all you legit have to do is go on Spotify, click 'Top Lists' and select other countries charts and half of the tracks won't be available for you because 'The track is currently not available in United States. If you have it on your computer, you can import it'.

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Right? Like. These blatant lies...

Otherwise I would be able to listen to Ella Henderson's album right now

Forevermore

No it doesn't. Their greedy asses tried though.

Rainsford

Her label saying she is local

elliotis19

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The label’s reasoning: that Swift is a giant star in the States, but she’s still trying to expand her fan base abroad.

Fair and balanced reporting.

Infinite

this and the "arena tour" are the proof that she is local

Pat

That is odd though, there are a lot of artists that only release their music in selected regions and therefore only is available in those regions on Spotify, weird how they couldn't do the same for Taylor.

Aatthew

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because the service requires all participating artists to make their music available in all of the 58 countries where it operates

There are quite a few UK artists who don't have their albums/singles available for streaming in the US. It's so annoying so clearly this isn't why they backed out.

I'm siding with Billboard and their source... It is just her label trying to up the worth of the label in preparation for bidding.

Mau ®

Plenty of artists release in select regions tho.

BadBoy

Spotify...

NewRihannaStan

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Originally posted by Lulu

Not it lowkey saying Taylor is local

Hugamari

If there is any truth to this, Spotify should've went with it. However, I don't really think it's the case, and it was more Big Machine trying to squeeze every cent out of their biggest artist.