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eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life.

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Taylor Swift made her debut 20 years ago today.

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Taylor Swift is now the woman with the most #1 debuts in Billboard Hot 100 history, with 9.

She now has 15 number one hits overall.

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Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman in history to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Taylor Swift stuns at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ahead of her induction.

(🎥: @Variety)

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Taylor Swift has released her original song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ from Toy Story 5.

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[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

It’s a *Toy* Story 🤠
You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and @Pixar’s @toystory 5 will be yours on June 5th. I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?
You can pre-order now exclusively at https://t.co/NoneI6kxdH and catch Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

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Taylor Swift’s new song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ for ‘Toy Story 5’ will mark a return to her country roots.

The song was written and produced by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff.

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🚨 Taylor Swift announces original song for ‘Toy Story 5’ titled ‘I Knew It, I Knew You.’

Out this Friday.

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she won this trend without even using ai

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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.

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Taylor Swift has begun a 48-hour countdown on her website.

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Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify.

When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.

Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them.

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[alex ☁️ @msidnights]

“I BUILD A LEGACY THAT YOU CAN'T UNDO”

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Talking about songwriting > Talking about anything else. Thank you @joecoscarelli and @nytmag. I had the (NY) Time of my life 😎

📷: Stefan Ruiz
🎥: Joshua Charow 

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Taylor Swift’s ‘ME!’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ were both released on the same day seven years ago today.

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Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify history.

[Zara Larsson @zaralarsson]

Girls Trip 🌺 out May 1st!!! https://t.co/LBhSKC4amb

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Margaret Qualley and Madelyn Cline star in Sabrina Carpenter’s “House Tour” music video.

Directed by Sabrina Carpenter & Margaret Qualley.

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Taylor Swift has surprise released the ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ music video on Spotify and Apple Music.

The video is a clip compilation of the actress Elizabeth Taylor