Are you sure that it's a massive pay cut for Taylor Swift, or is it just less money going to the point-of-purchase and the labels? Further, I wonder what time

Are you sure that it's a massive pay cut for Taylor Swift, or is it just less money going to the point-of-purchase and the labels? Further, I wonder what time frame this would no longer be true. Seemingly+, the $12.99 album on iTunes is a 1-time purchase. If someone listened to 1 TS song every day for a year, that's $3.65. Somewhere around 4 years is the break-even point in this admittedly constructed argument. My point, however, is with streaming we have to reference a time-frame, because I'm willing to be over a thousand year period the streaming model is more lucrative. (Think about how much software has switched to a SAAS, aka streaming, model... granted, many differences surrounding IT support and upgrades, but I'm not trying to draw a close analogy...) + outside of the record industry's desire to have consumers re-license the music for every different format that comes out... EDIT - formatting