Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFor years, Spotify subscribers have been unable to pay through Apple’s App Store or Google Play, as the audio streamer has resisted the tech giants’ demands to fork over up to 30% of the payments processed through their platforms.Now, Spotify and Google have reached détente on this issue.The companies on Wednesday announced a multiyear agreement that will give users who have downloaded the Spotify Android app from the Google Play Store the choice to pay with either Spotify’s payment system or with Google Play Billing.For the first time, the two payment options will live side-by-side in the app.
Spotify will be paying Google a cut of subscription fees under the new arrangement — which is some percentage less than 30%, but neither company would confirm what that number is — for any purchases made through Google’s app store.
Spotify has publicly railed against the practices adopted by Google and Apple’s app stores — and Spotify still does not allow customers to pay through Apple’s App Store.
Spotify sided with Epic Games, maker of “Fortnite,” in the game company’s legal challenge to Apple App Store policies for developers.Under their regular policies, both Apple and Google collect 30% of first-year subscription payments; that is reduced to 15% starting in the second year of a subscription.The new agreement “will give everyone the freedom to subscribe and make purchases, using the payment option of their choice, directly in the Spotify app,” Spotify said in a blog announcing the Google deal.
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