How Taylor Swift broke this year's platinum drought
Taylor Swift's 1989, released last week, is the first album to go platinum in 2014. She has barred music-streaming service Spotify from streaming it and has taken her entire back catalogue off the site. Brent talks with music critics Maura K. Johnston of Maura Magazine , Chris Molanphy of Slate,and Geeta Dayal, author of Another Green World, about what pushed the album up the charts....

Taylor Swift's 1989, released last week, is the first album to go platinum in 2014. She has barred music-streaming service Spotify from streaming it and has taken her entire back catalogue off the site. Brent talks with music critics Maura K. Johnston of Maura Magazine , Chris Molanphy of Slate,and Geeta Dayal, author of Another Green World, about what pushed the album up the charts.