Not exact matches
The list is conspicuously lacking any female musicians, though this is likely due to the fact that Swift and Adele yanked their most recent releases from Spotify — which counts 20 million
paying subscribers and 75 million users of the ad - supported version of the service — in a bid to drive up physical
album sales.
«So long as he correctly reported his income from the
album sale,» Bayer tells CNBC Make It, «it doesn't matter if he got
paid in pesos, euros, drachma or bitcoin.»
Like Swift, the labels don't like Spotify's free service because it cannibalizes
album sales, and
pays less in royalties than the subscription product does.
Well, a star to us, because we're the record store clerks of baseball fans, and we don't
pay attention to
album sales.
Although fans were given the option of
paying nothing for the new
album, pre-release
sales exceeded total
sales from their previous
album Hail to the Thief, released via traditional means.
Musicians and labels everywhere are retreating from conventional
album sales, looking instead to online avenues where more than 110 million customers are already
paying for their music.