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[mafe @mafemarcucci]

looking to TRADE my eternal sunshine sunrise n2 lowerbowl tickets for n1, dm me if interested!!!

🏷️ ariana grande tour amerant arena july 2 june 30

[cherry HEARD CHERRY LIVE @ribbonsrry]

i don’t care if you saw olivia dean and sam fender it should’ve been me

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

This Taylor swift shit so cool

[jackantonoff @jackantonoff]

you caught you?

[Info Karol G @infokarolbr]

Karol G joins Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat and Sabrina Carpenter as the only Headliners to receive MAXIMUM rating from The Guardian:

More than a dozen songs, several glorious costume changes and some of the most luscious choreography ever seen in a headliner set.”

[Nelson 🩷 @hct_to_go]

I DONT CARE that sabrina doesn’t like yodeling
I DONT CARE that chappell roan dislikes children
I DONT CARE that taylor swift is overrated
im so against holding women to a ten fold higher standard when chris brown is being nominated for grammys and kanye is selling our stadiums

[Romero Ferro @FerroRomero]

Seguinte: não é sobre o Justin Bieber, é sobre estrutura.

O cara sobe no maior palco do mundo, entrega o básico com o maior cachê da história e sai ovacionado. Enquanto isso, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga e Sabrina Carpenter precisam performar no limite sem poder desafinar, criar momentos históricos e ainda recebem menos.

Isso não é coincidência, é a indústria operando dentro de uma lógica machista e misógina, onde homens heteros são premiados pelo básico e mulheres precisam ser impecáveis pra serem “suficientes”.

A régua nunca foi igual.
E fingir que é só gosto musical é passar pano pra desigualdade.

[ᥫ᭡ MET HARRY @zabelrry]

everyone talking abt bieberchella 2026 but im still stuck at harrychella 2022

[athena @athenamount]

In terms of popularity, she is.
In terms of height, she is.

[mafe @mafemarcucci]

@shortnsweetrry @HSHQ meanwhile they canceled my pink vinyl order 😀😀😀😀😀

[gab @dothatagainn]

AND @Ticketmaster

[🏁 @concertleaks]

Hayley Williams has been snubbed at the #GRAMMYs despite releasing the best album of 2025.

[✰ @salutationhrry]

me liking Harry’s friends comments on his post

[mafe @mafemarcucci]

anyone have extra tickets to see role model at the nhl winter classic in miami tonight? help a girl out😭😭😭😭😭

[mafe @mafemarcucci]

@desbedumb I DO PLEASE

[mafe @mafemarcucci]

@picturedofus MEEEEE

[mafe @mafemarcucci]

@concertleaks @edumarcucci1

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