Singer Taylor SwiftWhose new album It will possibly be the most sold in the first week of the last 10 years, it withdrew its complete catalog from the internet music reproduction service on Monday Spotify. Singers and bands, including Beyonce and Coldplay, have in the past delayed the release of their albums on Spotify to give retailers an exclusive period to sell the albums, but Swift has taken the unusual step of removing all of their music from the service. The move could discourage Swift's fans from using the service and overshadow the singer's announcement Monday for a world tour that begins in Louisiana in May.
Swift and her record label, Big Machine, requested last week that the singer's music be taken down, Spotify spokesperson Graham James said. Swift wrote in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal in July that “piracy, file sharing and online streaming have drastically reduced the number of album sales… music is art, and art is important and rare. . The important and rare things are valuable. It should be paid for the valuable things. It is my opinion that music should not be free.
The Swedish-British company Spotify made a request to Swift public in a blog post. "We hope she changes her mind and joins us in building a new music economy that works for everyone." The company said Swift's music was on 19 million playlists. The online streaming service has more than 40 million users. Swift's new album, '1989', was released on October 27 and is expected to exceed one million units sold in the United States when the figures are released tomorrow Wednesday.
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