Spotify will cough up the money to get her back soon enough. Taylor is gonna win either way.

But she won

Abandoning the service all together was never her plan, though. She removed her music for a short period of time to milk sales like the genius she is.

like she cares
her first week alone>>>
bye

No, that's not going to happen. If they pay Taylor more money, that will only open the door for other artists to demand more money as well and then Spotify will be ****ed.

Spotify is going to lose if they don't find a way to pay artists and labels a fair amount of money. It won't take long for this trend to take hold and for other big-name artists to begin pulling their records. Spotify keeps saying they've paid over a billion dollars to the industry thus far, but that's not that much money when you take into account the amount of records on Spotify and how many streams there are. One side has to cave in and change their ways... and well, we all know how much the music industry loves to change.

i believe she'll put it back up in a matter of weeks

AP by me

The album has enough demand that this becomes an opportunity for her to capitalize.

The old establishment just wants to continue paying artists and creators, who are actually responsible for their expensive way of life, pennies. It's a dying system.

Stand your ground Taylor.

Spotify.

This.

Spotify and Pandora's models are not going to work in the long term. You guys may be all gung-ho for Spotify right now because you (the listeners) are the only ones who benefit from it. Let's be honest, Spotify users are paying next to nothing for pretty much all the music they could ever ask for.

With abysmal payouts like $1.00 for 700+ plays, that's absolutely nothing. Especially when their "a billion+ dollars" claim is spread out between millions of artists and songs.

Taylor may not win the battle in the short term (though I'm sure her plan was never to remove her songs forever), but the music industry will win in the long run as more artists start boycotting and pulling their work from Spotify. They need to figure out a way to pay these artists FAIRLY. A fraction of a cent per play is not going to help these unknown co-writers, producers and composers put food on the table.

What Ive been saying. This is a really bad decision on her part

I'm sure she'll get over it

The music industry won't win in the long run if Spotify and other streaming services do fail in the future. Those streaming service users won't be going back to paying prices music labels force on them. They will just go and P2P the music, which means no income for the labels instead of the money they were getting from from Spotify.

You mention small payouts for songs with 700 plays, but I doubt a song with that popularity will receive a lot of income from the iTunes Store. I think popular artists (or their labels) can benefit from Spotify, considering the amount of plays they get vs. the amount of users on Spotify, it can give them a decent pay-out.

You honestly think the future is in purchased physical or digital music? No way, those sales are decreasing FAST while streaming is gaining a lot of traction.

If streaming fails, the music industry is in big trouble

Taylor's big enough for it not to affect her drastically but I don't see streaming slowing down anytime soon.

One day physical albums will be just as common as physical singles are now.