Irked by pop star Taylor Swift's much-hyped departure from Spotify, the music platform's CEO Daniel Ek took to a blog today to claim that his tech player has doled out some $2 billion to artists since 2008. Also, Ek wrote that his Stockholm, Sweden-based company has paid musicians $1 billion in the last year.
As his privately held firm has previously stated that it pays artists around 70 percent of its revenues, with the application of a little back-of-the-napkin math that means Spotify's sales were nearly $1.43
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