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Taylor Swift to Stream Top-Selling Album '1989' on Apple Music

bhonder said:
Is it just me or is there anybody else who thinks that 10$ per month (that will be easily 10€ here in Europe) is a lot of money to listen radio? There is still FM radio and is not single-brand driven as Apple music.

Plus, you pay 10€ per month to help a company to discover which product should make it gain even more money, not the converse. I'm a loyal Apple fan, but this is too much.
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Beats Radio is free. Apple Music which lets you stream any song on demand is $10.
 
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Rogifan said:
Which kind of makes me want to vomit inside. Of course we don't know it was a stunt but considering Apple has been working through this for weeks it seems a bit suspicious the way it all went down.
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Seems to me like Apple was already headed that way but Taylor wrote that letter before they could announce it. Of course they will use her and get all that publicity. I think in that sense it was a PR stunt.
 
So wait... it isn't an exclusive deal because she says it isn't... even though it is...?

I think the power she wielded with that letter is starting to go to her head.
 
This whole thing was set up... every move choreographed like one of her performances. Everything from her getting upset at Apple, to Apple contacting her directly by phone, to changing paying artists during the free period, and now--so magically, her 1989 album is now going to be on Apple Music. Apple/Swift isn't fooling anyone. It's just for publicity. Nothing more. I'll be skipping her songs, like I normally do.
 
I don't care for her music but I have to give her credit for upholding her part of the bargain. I had my doubts she would actually follow through.
 
Good news for Apple PR and Taylor's minions, but please, enough with her; can't stand her music or her self"activism" or self anything.
 
Magnanimous of Swift. Unfortunately, it doesn't make her album sound any better. ;)

Now, we need her to write an open letter to Cook suggesting that he reverse his idiotic decision on the banning of the Confederate Flag in game apps.
 
I smell a PR stunt. I suspected that before, but "This is simply the first time it's felt right in my gut to stream my album" is just so over the top. I mean, it's not like Apple solved the actual problem with streaming. The margins for artists are still laughably low. I thought that was what Swift was fighting for.
 
I'm pretty sure she didn't intend to, but she dug herself into a hole with the whole tumblr essay charade.
 
ya for the artists boo for me who has to listen to her now EWWW i hope there is a way to filter her out the pop stations on iTunes radio play way to much of her already its like every 3rd song
 
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