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.
WGA Says Writers’ Wages Are ‘Falling Behind’ Due to Streaming Pay Scale
thewrap.comcontract negotiation site, the Writers Guild of America outlined the impact that streaming has had on its members’ wages and says that it plans to “significantly address writer compensation” in the upcoming contract negotiation talks starting March 20. “The companies have used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels,” the WGA wrote. “On TV staffs, more writers are working at minimum regardless of experience, often for fewer weeks, or in mini-rooms, while showrunners are left without a writing staff to complete the season.
And while series budgets have soared over the past decade, median writer-producer pay has fallen.”“Driven in large part by the shift to streaming, writers are finding their work devalued in every part of the business,” the guild continued. “While company profits have remained high and spending on content has grown, writers are falling behind.To prove its case, the Writers Guild compared the percentage of writers on episodic series that worked at MBA minimum rates during the 2013-14 TV season to 2021-22.
Overall, the percentage of writers working at minimum rates has risen from 33% to 49%. Ninety-eight percent of staff writers and 95% of story editors are now being paid at minimum.Even in higher positions, more writers are working at the lowest wages allowed by the current bargaining agreement.
The percentage of co-producers working at minimums has surged from 10% in 2013-14 to a staggering 59% last TV season, and the percentage of showrunners has risen from 2% to 24% during that same eight-year period.
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