The thing is, say not having your music on Spotify gained 0.5 million album sales. At $10/album that's $5 million. Over what period did she earn the supposed $6 million?<p>Taylor Swift and/or her management has played everyone like a fiddle in this PR game. She stands up for artists, makes a stink, and gets a lot of press and sells a ton of albums.<p>People now continue to write about this to prove her wrong, but only end up proving her strategy to be the right one.<p>Not putting her music on Spotify in a very public way probably made her more money than keeping her albums on Spotify. Her fans still have plenty of ways of consuming her music, so it's a net win for everybody.