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Taylor Swift famously pulled her music from Spotify, along with Adele and several others, based on the feeling that their art is valuable and that free streaming devalues that art.
( Hassan 2016 )

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The ad-supported service, which has more than 70 million daily listeners, lost $518 million in 2017   (Graham, Jefferson).

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November of 2014, Taylor Swift pulled her catalogue from Spotify because of royalty issues. She criticized the service's policies, saying, "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music."
(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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34 percent of people who stream music do not want to pay because," they get all they need for free from YouTube."
(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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Everyone's favorite artists may not be available on all the music-streaming services, due to contractual issues. Additionally, some artists have decided not to stream their music at all, primarily because of the steady decline in musicians' earnings in the digital age. In a move that made waves in social media and the music industry, in November of 2014, Taylor Swift pulled her catalogue from Spotify because of royalty issues. She criticized the service's policies, saying, "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music."

Swift also forced Apple to reconsider its policy regarding withholding musicians' royalties for music streamed during the free-trial period for Apple Music. Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Apple's Internet Software and Services, reacted immediately, and tweeted, "Apple will always make sure that artists are paid. #AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer's free trial period." Swift later released her newest album only to Apple Music.

(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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Consumers love them, gladly swapping ownership for access to a massive, on-demand universe of songs. But the business has been treacherous, at least when it comes to turning a profit ( Sinder, Mike).

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Eliot Roberts, rocker Neil Young's manager, responded to Swift's move, saying, "This is a chance for artists to finally reclaim their art. I applaud Taylor for finally standing up for that concept." Neil Young has removed most of his catalogue from the various streaming services, criticizing the audio quality and claiming, "It's about sound quality. I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution ." He also said, " Streaming is the worst audio in history. If you want it, you got it. It's here to stay.
(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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"Streaming data allows people to store media on a server, which removes the need for large amounts of personal data storage.'

("Streaming" 2016)

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"This is a chance for artists to finally reclaim their art. I applaud Taylor for finally standing up for that concept."

(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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Streaming has been invaluable,” begins Glass Animals singer Dave Bayley, from the back of a tour bus bound for Glasgow. His band’s 2014 song Gooey currently stands at nearly 68m

Spotify streams, and was instrumental in turning Glass Animals into what Music Week recently described as “international streaming sensations”. Bayley looks back on the initial streaming success of Gooey with a mixture of confusion and amazement: “We looked at all the streaming services’ viral charts and, for some reason, we were at the top of them. Off the back of that, everything else happened.”

You could be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the notion of a “streaming artist”. Ten years ago, an unknown singer called Sandi Thom stormed to No 1 after livestreaming gigs from her south London basement. Her success was a masterpiece of implied causality. It wasn’t the livestreams, whose true popularity has since been queried, that rocketed her to No 1 – it was the fact that they provided an irresistible story to the established media.
(Streams ahead: the artists who made it huge without radio support)

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"Tidal pays a 75 percent royalty rate to ALL artists, writers and producers--not just the founding members on stage."
(Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Apple Music Compete for Musicians 2016)

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At the end of 2015, Netflix had 65.5 million subscribers, and Spotify had 20 million active users.("Streaming" 2016)