Taylor Swift Reveals Surprising Industry Reaction to Spotify Decision





The world's biggest pop star (who has a Twitter following of more than 48 million) has broken records since, with her album selling nearly 1.3 million copies during its first week -- the biggest single-week number in 12 years -- at a time when record sales are in dizzying free fall.

Swift, 25, also became the first female artist to have back-to-back No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 ("Shake It Off" and "Blank Space"). And her risky decision not to stream 1989 on the world's fastest-growing service, Spotify, magnified the debate over fair royalties during the digital age.

"I didn't think that it would be shocking to anyone," says Swift. "With as many ways as artists are personalizing their musical distribution, it didn't occur to me that this would be anything that anyone would talk about. But I could never have expected so many text messages, emails and phone calls from other artists, writers and producers saying thank you."


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Mockingjay of the capital

it'd be cute if a few more of these texters would go public tho

Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds Mockingjay of the capital

Originally posted by Tower I love how she was brave stood up for haself

Originally posted by thegmangrant Why do people act like Spotify is this evil villain? Taylor needs to take multiple seats. The record labels should be ashamed for the little percentage they give their artists from singles downloads and albums. Especially bands.

Originally posted by jpow Taylor needs to take a seat. Because she makes so much money from Youtube streams and The Pirate Bay downloads, that the mix of free and paid users of Spotify are so evil.