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Yahoo
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New Photo of Taylor Swift at Intimate Wedding Surfaces on Friday
New Photo of Taylor Swift at Intimate Wedding Surfaces on Friday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. A new photo of Taylor Swift has been circulating on the Internet. This time, at a wedding. The candid photo, originally posted by @paigedoeswhatshewants on TikTok on Friday but was deleted an hour after it was posted, shows Swift having a conversation with two other people wearing a sleeveless baby blue midi dress with pink flowers and a pair of brown wedges. Her wavy hair was worn down and she seemed to be wearing a simple gold bracelet on her wrist. The creator who posted the photo put the 35-year-old singer's song "So High School" in the background, which is the 22nd song from her latest album "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology." "not taylor swift being at my friends friends cousins wedding..." the creator wrote. Though the "You Need to Calm Down" singer has been trying to keep a relatively low profile since the end of her "Eras Tour" in December 2024 and after her boyfriend, tight end Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs lost the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles in February, she has been spotted quite frequently these past couple of weeks. On Wednesday evening, the couple was seen enjoying a dinner date at Buccan in Palm Beach, with Swift wearing a black mini dress and a pair of nude wedges. Then on May 23, they were spotted eating together at Harry's Bar and Restaurant, sitting side-by-side in a booth and enjoying their night. Last Friday, the singer revealed that she purchased the rights to her first six albums: her self-titled debut, "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red," "1989" and "Reputation." This means that the 35-year-old singer owns every single recording, music video, concert film and the art that comes with it. "All of the music I've ever belongs to me," the singer wrote in a letter that's published on her website. "Every single era. My entire life's work." Amid the exciting news of Swift's major announcement, this photo quickly sparked conversation among fans. Though details about the event remain limited, the image alone was enough to set social media story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 7, 2025, where it first appeared.
BBC News
12-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Spotify pays $10bn to music industry as debate over royalties continues
Spotify paid the music industry $10bn (£7.7bn) in 2024, which the streaming service said was the highest annual payment from any single retailer in history. But the figures come as a heated debate continues about how much money artists and songwriters receive in this year, several Grammy-nominated songwriters boycotted an awards event hosted by Spotify in a row about their streaming the new figures were published, a spokesperson for Spotify said the responsibility for distributing the money it pays lay with record labels and publishers. The company said it pays royalties to rights holders, adding that it does not have "visibility" on where the money ultimately goes because earnings are based on artists' individual contracts with their labels.A spokesperson said: "Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly. We pay rights-holders, these are typically record labels, music publishers, collection societies."These rights-holders then pay artists and songwriters based on their individual agreements."The amount of money earned by artists will vary, but a committee of MPs heard in 2021 that the performer's share of royalties is often about 16%.That would mean an artist whose music generated £100,000 on Spotify might only receive £16,000 in royalty payments, before Spotify is not the only streaming service to generate revenue for artists, and many pop stars make more money from other income streams such as live tours. Spotify said more than two-thirds of all music revenue goes "straight to the recording and publishing rights-holders", and added that, like other streamers, Spotify does not pay on a per-stream annual figures were published in Spotify's Loud and Clear report - part of the company's aim to provide transparency on how it pays the music amount Spotify paid this year was an increase on the more than $9bn (£7bn) it handed over in report highlighted that the number of artists generating annual royalties between $1,000 (£770) and $10m had tripled since 2017. Taylor Swift was named Spotify's top artist globally with more than 26 billion streams, in the year she released her double-length album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Swift herself was part of the debate about streaming royalties in 2014, when she removed her music from Spotify as part of a boycott, eventually re-joining the platform in recent artist boycotts have generally been prompted by other factors, such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removing their music over the streamer's employment of podcast host Joe Rogan. Both artists returned to the platform last dissatisfaction over streaming royalties continues. A large-scale survey of musicians in Europe carried out last year found that about 70% were unhappy with the amount they were paid in streaming revenue.
The Independent
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Spotify breaks record with largest annual payout reaching 10 billion dollars
Spotify has broken the record for the highest annual payment to the music industry from any single retailer with a 10 billion US dollar (£7.7 billion) payout, new figures show. The 2024 figure was revealed in the streaming provider's 2025 Loud And Clear report, after 2023 saw the streaming provider pay out more than nine billion dollars (£6.9 billion) to the music industry. The report revealed it brings the total lifetime payout to rights-holders for the work of artists and songwriters to nearly 60 billion dollars (£46.3 billion). A spokesperson for Spotify said: 'Music fans streaming their favourite artists are directly fuelling their success and they are reshaping the industry. 'Thanks to streaming, more artists than ever before are generating royalties at every career stage, more than at any time in music history.' The report also revealed more artists are making more money on the platform than ever before, with figures showing that artists who have generated royalties from 1,000 dollars (£772) to more than 10 million dollars (£7.7 million) per year has tripled since 2017. It comes after pop star Taylor Swift was named Spotify's 2024 global top artist with more than 26.6 billion streams globally along with ranking number one on the platform for her album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. It follows the singer's Eras world tour, which broke the touring revenue record with more than two billion dollars (£1.5 billion) in ticket sales. Music streaming has been criticised by artists and musicians around the world, including Swift, who have claimed they make little money from it. The American pop star boycotted Spotify and other music streaming platforms in 2014, pulling her music catalogue for three years before rejoining in 2017 after selling 10 million copies of her 1989 album worldwide. Radiohead's Thom Yorke also pulled his music in 2013, claiming unfair payment practices, but has since rejoined. The music streaming provider says it does not have 'visibility' on where the money goes, claiming it pays the record labels or publishers, which then pay artists and groups based on their individual contracts. A spokesperson for Spotify said: 'Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly. We pay rights-holders, these are typically record labels, music publishers, collection societies. 'These rights-holders then pay artists and songwriters based on their individual agreements. 'Just like every other streaming service, roughly two-thirds of all of our music revenue go straight to the recording and publishing rights-holders, and just like every other streaming service Spotify does not pay on a per-stream basis. 'Instead, if you have, say, 1% of all streams, your rights-holders will receive 1% of all the money we paid out. From there, the rightsholders divide up the money based on their individual contracts with the artists and songwriters who they represent. 'Once that money is paid out from Spotify, we do not have visibility into where it goes.'
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Spotify breaks record with largest annual payout reaching 10 billion dollars
Spotify has broken the record for the highest annual payment to the music industry from any single retailer with a 10 billion US dollar (£7.7 billion) payout, new figures show. The 2024 figure was revealed in the streaming provider's 2025 Loud And Clear report, after 2023 saw the streaming provider pay out more than nine billion dollars (£6.9 billion) to the music industry. The report revealed it brings the total lifetime payout to rights-holders for the work of artists and songwriters to nearly 60 billion dollars (£46.3 billion). A spokesperson for Spotify said: 'Music fans streaming their favourite artists are directly fuelling their success and they are reshaping the industry. 'Thanks to streaming, more artists than ever before are generating royalties at every career stage, more than at any time in music history.' The report also revealed more artists are making more money on the platform than ever before, with figures showing that artists who have generated royalties from 1,000 dollars (£772) to more than 10 million dollars (£7.7 million) per year has tripled since 2017. It comes after pop star Taylor Swift was named Spotify's 2024 global top artist with more than 26.6 billion streams globally along with ranking number one on the platform for her album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. It follows the singer's Eras world tour, which broke the touring revenue record with more than two billion dollars (£1.5 billion) in ticket sales. Music streaming has been criticised by artists and musicians around the world, including Swift, who have claimed they make little money from it. The American pop star boycotted Spotify and other music streaming platforms in 2014, pulling her music catalogue for three years before rejoining in 2017 after selling 10 million copies of her 1989 album worldwide. Radiohead's Thom Yorke also pulled his music in 2013, claiming unfair payment practices, but has since rejoined. The music streaming provider says it does not have 'visibility' on where the money goes, claiming it pays the record labels or publishers, which then pay artists and groups based on their individual contracts. A spokesperson for Spotify said: 'Spotify does not pay artists or songwriters directly. We pay rights-holders, these are typically record labels, music publishers, collection societies. 'These rights-holders then pay artists and songwriters based on their individual agreements. 'Just like every other streaming service, roughly two-thirds of all of our music revenue go straight to the recording and publishing rights-holders, and just like every other streaming service Spotify does not pay on a per-stream basis. 'Instead, if you have, say, 1% of all streams, your rights-holders will receive 1% of all the money we paid out. From there, the rightsholders divide up the money based on their individual contracts with the artists and songwriters who they represent. 'Once that money is paid out from Spotify, we do not have visibility into where it goes.' Sign in to access your portfolio
