Taylor Swift And Spotify, Not Done Yet, Daniel Ek!

Daniel Ek to Taylor Swift.

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Swift broke up with Spotify and pulled all her music from the service and Spotify sang sad songs. Even among the turmoil Spotify has surpassed iTunes in Europe in earnings. But it was not the end.
Taylor went onto explain her position on Yahoo, but the explanation was too painful to read/watch as I felt that it was not close to the reality. But she did sell 1.3 million copies of her album and exclude me or anyone I know from that 1.3 million people. If I really wanted to listen, I could have gone to Youtube but her music is not that worth to me. But people who do, they do.
Now we find that the saga is not over, Daniel Ek of Spotify has revealed today that Taylor was in line to earn $6 million from Spotify. We also noted that the sales from the album 1989 was $12 million(first week). I doubt Big Machine would give her all the money.
Anyway even though not exactly pointed at Taylor, Daniel Ek's long write up explains a lot about the industry and how money flows etc.
He noted that payouts from Spotify, 2 Billion so far have been progressively rising thus streaming is the way of the future for all music. I tend to believe him but services like iTunes and Google Play will continue to provide copies when we want to have the songs near by.

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Worlds favorite singer, Taylor Swift and Spotify, worlds largest streaming service seem to have no love between them, even though, Spotify is sending her love filled pleas. I expected something like this when Music companies complained about lost sales due to streaming services. Even Apple's iTunes lost to the tune of 13% in downloads / sales. RIAA reported increase, a huge jump in streaming subscriptions.

Well all before this Taylor Swift went on WSJ talking about her music being a love affair and more;
"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."
Hope it will not be a sad one. Publications like The Washington Post, did not like her piece on WSJ and criticized her, ironically referring to her as a streaming enthusiastic;
"Streaming enthusiasts such as Swift should remember: Twenty percent of music on Spotify has never been streamed — so much that there’s a kind of song rescue shelter, Forgotify, to memorialize it."
Anyway there are no other news about the incident other than the plea by Spotify and it's 40 million users. I doubt that all 40 million listen to her but it could be as her album 1989, looks to hit platinum.
Her songs are available through other streaming services, Rdio, Pandora and Deezer and even if it is not, I will not miss her as she is not my type. But there are a lots and lots of people who do and for their sake, I hope this will turn out to be a happy love song.
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