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Celeb News: Taylor removes her music from Spotify
Member Since: 9/13/2012
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Just putting this out there:
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Artists are paid from Spotify on a per-stream basis. According to The Guardian, a track that is played 1 million times on Spotify will earn the artist about $6,078. This means while popular acts like Swift will earn from the service, lesser-known musicians will struggle to see any profit.
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http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/ta...bandon-spotify
If your whole album got one million plays total, that's basically like selling a few hundred copies of your album. I can see why both big and small artists would feel like they're getting ripped off.
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Member Since: 8/13/2012
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Taylor writes her own music and she is right for wanting to make money from it. Nothing to see here, only the usual trolling by other fan bases who can't see that she is actually making a statement.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Others should take notes in such a dying music climate. Respect.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by YR.
Taylor writes her own music and she is right for wanting to make money from it. Nothing to see here, only the usual trolling by other fan bases who can't see that she is actually making a statement.
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Just wait for other acts to start following suit
Taylor at the start of the revolution
#SabotageSpotify2K14
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Member Since: 8/10/2012
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Originally posted by Yarotska
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.
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Thank you
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Member Since: 3/5/2012
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Kinda greedy
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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And that's how it works, it's how you get the coins !
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Beyoncé didn't pul self-titled on Spotify either, other artist should follow,
they have the followings, they have the power tbh
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Member Since: 9/7/2012
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Originally posted by Fred Perry
Kinda greedy
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How?
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Member Since: 1/5/2014
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Originally posted by Yarotska
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.
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Drag me
Seriously, amazing post. I got nothing to say, I agree 100% with even though I enjoy listening to music for free (obviously) but yeah you're right.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Member Since: 1/13/2012
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Streaming pays dust. 23k copies of an album and 230k copies if a single is bad.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
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NOT people actually defending this greedy move by Taylor. Spotify is one of the best things that has happened to the music industry. It allows consumers to cheaply listen to millions of songs and albums which they would otherwise have to dish out a lot of money for, or just illegally download.
How can people defend her removing her albums at all? She makes enough money as it is...
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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The ones saying greedy, are the same ones who don't buy her music in the first place, so, Who's the greedy?, why you care?.
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Member Since: 3/11/2012
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She is aware that people WILL buy her music.
Not like the rest of the Artists that need that extra cash from Spotify
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Greedy & money hungry.
There's no excuse for this.
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Member Since: 10/22/2010
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Lol I really have no opinion on this aside from the obvious fact that she is making a statement regarding Spotify's royalties policies. But to see the Katy's in here grasping at a chance to be negative has me LOLing
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Member Since: 8/30/2012
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Oh well, I don't use spotify, I download.
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Member Since: 1/6/2014
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Originally posted by Kuntmonster
NOT people actually defending this greedy move by Taylor. Spotify is one of the best things that has happened to the music industry. It allows consumers to cheaply listen to millions of songs and albums which they would otherwise have to dish out a lot of money for, or just illegally download.
How can people defend her removing her albums at all? She makes enough money as it is...
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Her music will just get illegally downloaded more and she'll miss out on those "irrelevant' checks from Spotify anyway.
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