Interesting article about Apple and it's Beats streaming service and how Universal is now turning against free streaming. Also talks about exclusivity deals for leading artists, including Taylor.
Quote:
within Universal, and to a lesser extent within Sony, the tide is turning on rights-holder tolerance for ad-supported music. And it’s turning strongly.
Was Taylor Swift’s decision to yank her music off free streaming services last year more to do with inflating Big Machine’s asking price than whether or not she truly believed in the value of art?
Who knows. To a degree, it doesn’t matter.
Her headline-grabbing disappearing act was the clap of thunder that set loose a tornado: major labels are now threatening to pull their catalogues from free services, including Spotify’s, by the time the year is out – as Spotify stubbornly refuses to allow top-drawer artists to release premium-only content on its service.
One UMG high-up recently put the sentimental version of Grainge’s argument to me over lunch: “You know, you can listen to Michael Jackson’s complete catalogue, all day, every day, for the rest of your life and never pay a penny. I mean, that can’t be right, can it?”
1. Treacherous
2. All Too Well
3. State of Grace
4. Wildest Dreams
5. Begin Again
6. Holy Ground
7. Style
8. All You Had to Do Was Stay
9. The Last Time
10. Stay Stay Stay/Sad Beautiful Tragic
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1. Treacherous
2. I Knew You Were Trouble
3. Style
4. Holy Ground
5. Begin Again
6. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
7. All Too Well
8. Bad Blood
9. Stay Stay Stay
10. Wildest Dreams
country radio chart update (from last week sunday):
--------- 98 SWIFT, TAYLOR Style 14 0 14 0.092 151 112 SWIFT, TAYLOR I Knew You Were Trouble 5 3 2 0.023
--------- 242 SWIFT, TAYLOR Eyes Open 1 0 1 0.002 466 313 SWIFT, TAYLOR Shake It Off 1 0 1 0.005
idk how the bolded didn't go recurrent yet since they made the top 60
country radio chart update (from last week sunday):
--------- 98 SWIFT, TAYLOR Style 14 0 14 0.092 151 112 SWIFT, TAYLOR I Knew You Were Trouble 5 3 2 0.023
--------- 242 SWIFT, TAYLOR Eyes Open 1 0 1 0.002 466 313 SWIFT, TAYLOR Shake It Off 1 0 1 0.005
idk how the bolded didn't go recurrent yet since they made the top 60
