if they increase the price of spotify people are just going to download it illegal, stop trying to fight a losing battle. At the end of the day its just comes down to greed.

I have a lot of respect for her. And I love what she said about the album artist part

So which is it? First we hear that her label wanted to make her music available only outside the U.S. Spotify said no, so they pulled out. Now she's saying she did it for ethical reasons?

it's just a joke. Trying to cover up the blatant greed

I've never been fan of Taylor Swift but this is so great, I'm with her

Spotify is trash

So much dumb people on ATRL

Not so far-thinking of her to call the future format of music industry "an experiment". Still, I guess, it's easier for her to brag about albums (she even said something like "they predicted a lower number than we had before" ["just" 700K in first week] "i hope and pray people still think music has value") as soon as she's bathing in money. It's easier to judge about industry moves when you're posing yourself as exception.

I can't agree with the statements about "value of music", because how can you mesure its value? For some people, a song is something they'd paid to forget, for some people, a song is literally priceless. I don't value my favourite albums in money I've paid for them. In fact, I don't value any album like that. First thing they cost is experience, emotions, message, work. And the biggest praise is appreciation of people. If your aim is to be heard, then you're on the right track. If your aim is having your efforts paid with $$$, **** off. What give you a right to say that selling an album for 99 cents is "giving away", "not fairly priced" but selling an ("old") album for 4$ is "normal"? Is the latter fairly prised? No, that's just something people can afford. Now they can afford something for free - and they use it. Selling music itself is formality that record labels need to prove industry still needs them to distribute music, so they are paid for something. I'm sure industry now needs them just as managers, responsible for business deals, promoters, but not music distributors. The paradigm is dying out. As one singer said... "now you don't earn money from art, but from anything else". And that's kinda where it goes. Musicians will get more money from live shows, from commercial deals. Only ones who want to make a statement, a piece of art, will remain in the industry, not the ones who were aimed on generic hits and getting money. And this whole situation will lead to raising quality of music.

Double standards. She may have ideals, but her label is still up to perspective commercial deals. Like, she was criticizing artists for "giving their music away", still, "1989" is given with Microsoft app for 99 cents...

I don't understand her reasoning for saying streaming being a "grand experiment" when it offsets the amount of illegal sharing that would be far more worse if streaming wasn't available ~ not to mention a good majority of consumers using streaming services are paying for their expansive versions rather the free. Now while I do see her point in saying streaming doesn't [fairly] compensate the writers, producers, etc, her overall point loses me. She wouldn't see a decline in sales regardless so she might as well utilize these additional outlets being offered.

^ She had nothing to do with that 99 cent deal and they removed it before the week was over

I applaud her for speaking out. she is such a smart person but also passionate about music, something I wish more aritsts displayed.

Exactly.

At the end of the day this is just a bunch of whining by artists who want more money, but don't have the balls to bitch at their labels (which is who they REALLY should be fighting here, not Spotify).

Yeah but the way to get higher rates per stream is to get more subscribers, this just makes it worse for all the smaller acts who need to put it on Spotify.