Taylor Swift Explains Why She Removed Her Music From Spotify
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The singer says in a new interview that Spotify is a 'grand experiment' that she doesn't think 'fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators' of music.

AceShowbiz - Taylor Swift has explained why she pulled her music from Spotify. A few days after the music streaming service removed her old catalog as she requested, the 24-year-old superstar defended her decision in an interview with Yahoo! Music.

Swift, whose newest album "1989" opened with 1.287 millions in its first week amid declining album sales, told the site that she wasn't sure if the LP would sell that well if she made it available on Spotify.

"If I had streamed the new album, it's impossible to try to speculate what would have happened," she told the site before calling the music service a "grand experiment" she didn't want to be a part of.

"Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment," she continued. "And I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music. And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."

Spotify pays artists "between $0.006 and $0.0084" per stream. Although "1989" had never streamed on Spotify, Swift allowed the lead single "Shake It Off" on the service. "A lot of people were suggesting to me that I try putting new music on Spotify with 'Shake It Off,' and so I was open-minded about it," she explained. "I thought, 'I will try this. I'll see how it feels.' It didn't feel right to me."

Swift's "1989" is currently on track to spend another week at No. 1 on Billboard 200. The star's first pop effort has been projected to sell more than 350,000 copies in its second week.

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