Taylor Swift, 22% of albums sold in US

Some have credited Swift’s huge sales to her stand against Spotify: unable to stream 1989, fans had to purchase the record. Swift initially used the same tactic with Red, adding the album to Spotify only eight months after it was released. Certainly, the mammoth sales will earn the singer more money than almost any number of streams: as Aloe Blacc revealed on Wednesday, he and Avicii received only $12,359 from 168m Pandora streams of their smash Wake Me Up.

Taylor Swift responsible for 22% of albums sold in the US | Music | The Guardian: "In just seven days, this year’s first platinum artist shifted more copies of 1989 than the combined sales of albums at No 2 to No 107 in Billboard chart"

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