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How Taylor Swift's 2018 contract negotiations will see ALL Universal Music Group acts benefit from Spotify sale

Taylor Swift's deal benefitted all UMG artists

A deal made by Taylor Swift in 2018 will see Universal Music Group's artists profit from the record label's sale of their Spotify stake.

The 36-year-old singer signed a deal with the label in 2018 shortly after the release of her album Reputation, at a time when rivals Sony Music and Warner Music Group had just sold their stakes in the streaming service, with both of those labels offering different deals to their artists.

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