As services such as Pandora and Spotify are becoming popularized, the music industry has taken a step back to survey the potential damage.<\/p>\n
Big artists like Beyonce and Taylor Swift have chosen to keep their albums from being available to stream, blaming the decline in music industry sales on streaming services.<\/p>\n
But what does that mean for newer artists who don’t have a large-scale marketing team to project an album to the top? Regardless of the fact that “artists make considerably less money when a fan listens to a track on Spotify rather than buying a track outright…the streaming service says that as it achieves scale it will be able to pay artists even more than they\u2019re able to earn selling discrete units.”<\/p>\n
For smaller bands, services like Spotify are able to present artists to a greater target audience and integrate them into playlists that are featured on the “browse” section.<\/p>\n
What’s your stance on the debate? Moving forward, should all artists aim to release their albums on streaming service?<\/p>\n
Or should art be reserved for those who see the value and rarity of a certain piece of music and therefore pay for it individually, as Swift suggests?<\/p>\n