10 years, 5 months ago

Taylor Swift breaks up with Spotify

Taylor Swift’s latest hit, “Shake It Off,” was written as a message encouraging listeners to ignore trend-conscious bullies, but it’s now also the message she has effectively sent to Spotify. Four days after her new album, “1989,” was released, Swift and her Nashville-based label Big Machine Records withdrew all her music from the streaming service. For its part, Spotify posted a statement lobbying Swift and her label to make her music available to the service again, stating, “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. That would top the first-week figure for her previous album, “Red,” which sold 1.21 million copies upon release in 2012.

LA Times

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