Taylor Swift Takes On The Music Industry and The Wall Street Journal

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal on why she believes the music industry isn’t dying and what future is in store for it. You can read an exert from the piece below and read it in its entirety here.

There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.

 

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