http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/11...nes-in-europe/

We all knew this was coming looks like Taylor made a mistake

Could someone explain to me exactly how much money an artist gets from one stream, vs. from one sale?

Poor Taylor

It's not generating appropriate royalties fro songwriters and composers yet, and it's only doing better for lead and featured artists because it's becoming far more popular than digital consumption.

Rise Spotify! Prove the haters wrong (but do start paying out more please )

It was to be expected, streaming is picking up in many countries. It's a new development within the industry and like the CD took it over from the cassettes, this will be a thing that will not dissapear until some wiz kid comes up with something new.

Every single person I know uses Spotify at work they dont even have iTunes on their PCs!

Absolutely hate Spotify!! Can't stand having to listen to only the options they give me!!! iTunes has EVERYTHING available all the time!!! Would rather pay to own each song or album than to pay for an online radio service!!! I'LL STICK WITH iTUNES...even though the rest of you want this Spotify thing because it's the newest, greatest fad!

Calm down.

I've been using Spotify for over 5 years, it's hardly a fad. What exactly do you mean by only the options it gives you?

In 2012 45% of all "sales" in Norway came from streaming. In 2014 it's 77%. It's sick how quickly it has taken over here

In 2012 it was almost 40% physical sales, now it's around 11%
Downloads (mostly iTunes) has went from around 16% to 10%, so not the biggest downfall. We like it physical here I guess so no surprise Spotify easily can take over for iTunes in countries where this is also the case.

1000 streams = 6$
1 sale = €1.29 = $1.61

So let's take the number one hit single of the Netherlands.

It's selling about 2000 a week on iTunes, and has about 730k streams on Spotify.

That means that it's making about 3200$ a week from iTunes and 4400$ a week from Spotify. Both are small numbers, but eventually Spotify can be more profitable because of high catalog plays.

Same here. I have yet to meet the 1st person who buys music on iTunes

Spotify has pretty much every song you can think of, except if the song you want is by an artist like Taylor who opposes Spotify.

I don't see the appeal of Spotify. I know it's free but you can also pay for it, but illegal downloads and iTunes exist... so Spotify's purpose is what?

You are using it wrong hunty...

For people like me who actually feel bad when they illegally download and don't always have $1.29 for each "single" and $5+ for each album. Plus you can use it free (w/ ads obvi) and just shuffle through playlists which most people don't mind.

Of course. European charts are soon only based on streaming.

That Spotify reing just won't let up!

its purpose is to stop that.