Strong enough to snub Spotify: Taylor Swift takes a stand over song royalties

Singers move condemned by some as shortsighted, but others see it as a savvy way to drive up album sales This may well be remembered as the week Taylor Swift established herself as the most powerful 24-year-old in music industry history. The singers latest album, 1989, is expected to have the largest sales week for any album since 2002, when Eminem sold a little over 1.3m copies of The Eminem Show in its first week. It will also be the first album to sell more than 1m copies in the US this year ...