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Taylor Takes A Bite Out Of Apple
There is Bad Blood brewing between Country Pop starlet Taylor Swift and Tech industries goliathan Apple who has announced today via her immensely popular Tumblr blog that she will be holding back her album entitled 1989 from the proposed new Apple Music streaming service. The blog repost from Taylor is…
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Ed Sheeran Says He Owes His Career to Spotify
Music superstar Ed Sheeran has come out saying that he owes his entire career to music streaming service, Spotify. He said backstage at the BBC Music Awards “My music has been streamed 860 million times, which means that it’s getting out to people. I’m playing sold-out gigs in South America, I’ve…
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Who’s Making Money From Music Streaming? Because Spotify Isn’t, Musicians Aren’t
Spotify isn’t making much money from streaming music, at all. The company has revealed that it scooped in around $1.03 billion in 2013, which was up 74% or so from 2013. But, it doshed out most of that to record companies and publishers, which had the company report an $80…
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Taylor Swift’s YouTube Video Views Double After Artist Snubs Spotify
Popular music artist Taylor Swift snubbed Spotify by pulling her music from the online streaming music station – and her YouTube music video views have doubled since then. Nielsen Music Connect informed the Swift Vevo channel on YouTube dramatically increased from 12.5 million views per day during the week ending…
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Dave Grohl Not Concerned About Spotify, Wants Fans to Listen to Music
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl just wants people to listen to his band’s music and attend concerts, and isn’t too worried about Spotify or other online services. Money issues aside, the end goal is to have listeners enjoy music and serve as a reminder that new music is still being…
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[Update] Spotify has Paid $2B to Artists, Taylor Swift Would Have Made $6M
The music industry was in the spotlight earlier this month when Taylor Swift pulled her hot new album release from Spotify’s digital streaming service. Claims were made from Taylor and her record label that the artists weren’t getting a big enough payout from having their music available on the service, but…
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Spotify Hits 12.5 Million Subscribers, Taylor Swift Still Unhappy
Music streaming service Spotify has announced that they now have 12.5 million paying subscribers. The news came in a blog post by the Swedish company’s CEO Daniel Ek. The number is part of it’s 50 million users overall, making it easily one of the biggest in the growing streaming music business.…
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