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Originally posted by Legacy
It's not like Spotify is hurting her sales otherwise she wouldn't be selling +1 million first week for the 3rd time...
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NOW, but as her younger fans grow up, they'll realize that they, too, can stream for free, their parents will catch on, etc. It's not about now, it's about the future. Industry projections tell the entire story.
Besides, artists may not make a lot of money from album sales, but the record labels do, the writers and composers do. The more money her label is getting, the more money they can put into her newer work.
If that old figure is correct, 100 MILLION streams is worth only about ~$300,000; the same as 23,095 copies of 1989 on iTunes. The same as 232,559 copies of Shake It Off at $1.29. And 100 million streams of a song is not a common number.
Her first week of album sales in the US will beat that $300k over 56 times. That's a lot more money in 1 week than a whole album's run on Spotify.