Taylor Swift’s Battle With Spotify Continues: Other Artists To Follow ‘1989’ Hitmaker’s Lead?

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To the dismay of fans and avid users of the music-streaming application, Taylor Swift pulled her albums from Spotify's music library this month, .

The "1989" singer's battle with Spotify the music-streaming service's CEO Daniel Ek fought back at Taylor Swift with a blog post where he reportedly claims that his company makes sure to pay their artists, according to the media outlet Fast Company.

"Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists," wrote Ek.

Ek also reportedly claimed that if Swift has chosen to stay with the service for the year, she would have made $6 million. Swift's independent record label, Big Machine, has reportedly called Spotify out on this claim, stating that the record label has received $496,044 for "domestic streams of Swift's music" and that the payoff from Vevo is higher than what she earns on Spotify.

"On Spotify, they don't have any settings, or any kind of qualifications for who gets what music. I think that people should feel that there is a value to what musicians have created, and that's that," Taylor Swift told Time.

Other artists may follow the "Out of the Woods" singer's lead and leave music-streaming services as well. Desmond Child and his two co-writers, who are responsible for Bon Jovi's hit "Livin' on a Prayer," reportedly split a total of only $110, despite the fact that their song was listened to by 6.5 million people on Pandora during a three-month span in 2012, according to website WGNO.

"It's upside down. It needs to get back in balance. It's just simply not fair," stated Child regarding the fact that musicians and songwriters are barely making money from streaming.

Jason Isbell, the Americana Music Association's 2014 Artist of the Year, commented, "I'm glad the Taylor Swift thing has caused people to consider it more, because I do think it's an imperfect business model."

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