Spotify reportedly paid Taylor Swift less than $500,000 this year
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Taylor’s camp is snapping its figurative fingers at Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, while uttering “Oh no, you did not!” for saying that the superstar was on track to earn over $6 million from the streaming service within the next year, if she didn’t pull her catalog. According to Big Machine, Swift’s label, CEO Scott Borchetta, Taylor’s music earned only $496,044 in the past 12 months from domestic Spotify streaming. Thus, he’s finding Ek’s statement hard to believe, especially since Taylor apparently earned more from her Vevo videos within the same timeframe. The songstress did get $2 million overall from global streaming, at least that’s what a spokesperson from Ek’s company told Time.

Taylor Swift has been paid less than $500,000 in the past 12 months for domestic streaming of her songs, Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Taylor Swift’s record label, the independent Nashville-based Big Machine, told TIME Wednesday. His statement is the latest salvo in an increasingly heated disagreement between Swift and Spotify. The disagreement has sent ripples through the music industry, with the country’s most successful musician removing her work from an admired new online music model. According to Borchetta, the actual amount his label has received in return for domestic streams of Swift’s music—$496,044—is drastically smaller than the amount Spotify has suggested the artist receives. That sum represents only a portion of the amount paid out by the streaming service. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said Tuesday that the label for an artist of Swift’s popularity could expect to receive $6 million in the next year from the streaming service as the site’s audience grows. Borchetta said his label had made more from streaming Taylor Swift’s videos on the video site Vevo than it has from putting her music on Spotify.

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