The singer's newest album '1989' had never hit the music streaming service, but its lead single 'Shake It Off' was the most-played song when it was pulled.
- Nov 4, 2014
AceShowbiz - Fans can no longer stream the songs from Taylor Swift's albums on Spotify starting on Monday, November 3. The 24-year-old superstar and her label Big Machine have asked the music streaming service to remove her old catalog from its library.
The four albums released by Swift in the past, including last year's "Red", aren't available on Spotify anymore. "1989", her latest LP which arrived last week, had never streamed on Spotify, but Swift allowed the lead single "Shake It Off" on the service and it was the most-played track when it was pulled.
Spotify is now trying hard to make Swift change her mind. In a statement posted on their website, they said, "We love Taylor Swift, and our more than 40 million users love her even more - nearly 16 million of them have played her songs in the last 30 days, and she's on over 19 million playlists."
"We hope she'll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone. We believe fans should be able to listen to music wherever and whenever they want, and that artists have an absolute right to be paid for their work and protected from piracy. That's why we pay nearly 70|percent| of our revenue back to the music community," they continued.
"PS - Taylor, we were both young when we first saw you, but now there's more than 40 million of us who want you to stay, stay, stay. It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes," they added.
Swift hasn't commented on why she broke up with Spotify. However, many speculate that she's not happy with the money she makes from allowing her songs on the service. In a piece she wrote for the Wall Street Journal last summer, she said that music shouldn't be free and artists should be paid what they're worth.
"Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically," she wrote. "Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."
