Friday 14 November 2014

Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: 'I'm really frustrated'

Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: 'I'm really frustrated'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/11/spotify-ceo-taylor-swift-albums-daniel-ek
Daniel Ek: ‘The talk swirling around lately about how Spotify is making money on the backs of artists upsets me big time’
This was about the CEO of Spotify making his first comment about the Taylor Swift situation.
  • Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek has responded to Taylor Swift’s decision to remove her albums from the streaming service with a blog post tackling what he describes as the “myths” of streaming music.
  • In his post, Ek announced that Spotify now has 50 million active users, with 12.5 million of them paying for a monthly subscription.
  • He added that Spotify has now paid out more than $2bn in royalties to labels and publishers.
  • Ek also defended Spotify’s “blend” of free and subscription music, with Swift having removed her albums because the company refused to only make them available to its paying subscribers.
  • Ek also claimed that a top artist like Taylor Swift can expect to earn $6 a year from Spotify streams
I think what Taylor Swift and her label did was not clever.They were making a lot of money out of this online streaming system and if they don't like that - well they have too because thats were the music industry has gone to now. 

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