The international pop star, Taylor Swift pulled her entire music list from the online music streaming application ‘Spotify’.
Spotify spokesman Graham James said Taylor and her record label, Big Machine, requested last week that the singer’s music be taken down.
According to Taylor “In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists [and their labels] place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.
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.”
Big Machine declined to comment on why it asked for the singer’s albums to be pulled from Spotify but the record label’s founder, Scott Borchetta, has been vocal in the past over his dislike about how Spotify and other free streaming services compensate record labels.
‘Spotify’ said Taylor’s music was on 19 million playlists. The streaming service has more than 40 million users.
They made a public plea to Taylor, saying in a blog post, “We hope she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone.”
(Photo Source: Taylor Swift’s Official Instagram Account)
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