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Two days before Taylor Swift is predicted to shatter this year's first-week sales record, Big Machine Label Group has pulled the star's catalog from streaming service Spotify, prompting the company to take the unprecedented move of appealing to her (very large, sleeve-mounted) heart, and that of her label. 
  
  
  
 In a blog post titled "On Taylor Swift’s Decision To Remove Her Music from Spotify," the company wrote: "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." 
  
  
  
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 Big Machine Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta has been outspoken about streaming services, telling the Financial Times for a January story: "I have real concerns with the biggest companies licensing their catalogs to any streaming service that switches on. I think that devalues music, and so it's really important that record companies and content providers around the world make sure that we’re holding on to ... value. It takes a lot of time and effort and money and talent to do this, and if we start giving it all away for fractions of pennies, we're not going to be able to do it anymore." 
  
 Swift herself wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in July, presenting an optimistic view of the music business but expressing wariness about streaming. "In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it. 
  
 At publication time, other Big Machine Label Group artists, such as Florida Georgia Line, were still available on the streaming service. 
  
  
  
 Big Machine Label Group did not respond to a request for comment. ||||| Taylor Swift. VEVO/YouTube Taylor Swift has refused to put her new album "1989" on Spotify since its release last week, and now she has also pulled her old albums from the streaming service. 
  
 It doesn't appear that any of Swift's songs are available on Spotify, and a Spotify spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that Swift removed all of her albums from the streaming service. 
  
 Artists don't make nearly as much money putting their music on Spotify as they do selling digital albums and songs on services like iTunes. 
  
 Last month, Jimmy Buffett asked Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for a raise, saying artists who stream their music on Spotify are "at the end of the pipeline" when it comes to the money Spotify pays labels for permission to stream albums. 
  
 Spotify says it pays 70% of its revenue to labels — which will amount to about $1 billion this year — but some artists feel they don't get a big enough cut. 
  
 The streaming service revealed last year that it paid record labels an average of less than a penny per play. 
  
 In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, Swift wrote that "piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically." 
  
 Swift wrote the editorial to express confidence in the future of music, noting that she hoped artists didn't "underestimate themselves or undervalue their art." 
  
 Spotify is working hard to change Swift's mind. Here's a statement that was just posted on the company's website: 
  
 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% of our revenue back to the music community. 
  
 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. 
  
 Swift initially refused to release her 2012 album "Red" on Spotify, but she relented several months later. 
  
 Spotify is valued at $4 billion and reportedly wants to sell for more than $10 billion, according to The Journal. 
  
 This highlights one issue with Spotify's business model — artists have quite a bit of power over the streaming service if they can yank their albums at any time. 
  
 NOW WATCH: Why You Hate The Sound Of Your Own Voice ||||| Hell hath no fury like Taylor Swift scorned. Her exes know that. And now Spotify does, too. 
  
 The "Shake It Off" singer is shaking off Spotify, removing all her songs and albums from the popular music streaming platform just days after Spotify publicly criticized the 24-year-old artist for not immediately making her latest album, 1989, available to stream. 
  
 Spotify had told Mashable on Wednesday that 1989 wasn't available on Spotify because of "a decision by the artist." A spokesman added that "Taylor Swift has nearly 2 million active followers on [Spotify] who will be disappointed by this decision." 
  
 Swift's camp, including Big Machine Records, appears to not be amused by Spotify's public finger-pointing and reacted on Monday by removing her four previous studio albums. 
  
 It's important to note that Swift's music, sans 1989, is available on the Apple-owned Beats Music service, a smaller streaming rival whose executives have stressed a desire to secure artist exclusives. Though Spotify has dominated the foot race for streaming exclusives and general availability over the years — converting digital holdouts like Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pink Floyd while also securing an impressive amount of newer music — Beats Music is primed to offer stiffer competition for exclusives now that it's under Apple's umbrella, which includes the powerful iTunes Store (could Beats now win the streaming rights for The Beatles' catalogue since Apple previously nabbed the digital-download rights for the music?). 
  
 This setback for Spotify of no longer having the music from Swift, who is on track to notch the best-selling debut for an album this year, will have all parties (investors, musicians, labels and consumers) reconsidering Spotify's overall value. 
  
 "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," Spotify said in a statement Monday. "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% of our revenue back to the music community [rightsholders]." 
  
 After 1989 was released on Oct. 27, many began searching phrases like "Why isn't 1989 on Spotify?" Fans wanted a free taste of Swift's newest project. 
  
 But Swift isn't one to give freebies. She's been vocal about that, joining the heated debate about music royalties in the age of streaming, digital downloads and YouTube. As it stands, Spotify pays artists and rightsholders of each song "between $0.006 and $0.0084" per stream, depending on how many paid users the service has, in which country the user is streaming the song and currency values in each country. 
  
 "Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for," Swift said earlier this year to The Wall Street Journal. "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." 
  
 Swift's previous album, Red, in 2012 didn't appear on Spotify until months after its release date. It went on to sell 1.21 million in its first week. 
  
 While most artists want their new music to be available to stream immediately in order to spur album sales, big guns like Coldplay, Adele, Beyoncé and Swift often wait before unleashing their albums on platforms without buy buttons. 
  
 Swift's camp is following the same let's-sell-albums-first strategy for 1989, which would become the first 2014 album to achieve the milestone if it goes platinum on Nov. 5 (the Recording Industry Association of America's million-copies-sold certification). 
  
 Swift's 1989 is available to download in digital stores like iTunes and Amazon for less than $13, and Microsoft via an app is offering it at a special rate of $0.99 for a limited time. 
  
 The discussion about how much artists should get paid by Spotify, Pandora, Rdio and more has been going on for years, yet no clear industry model has been set because services are still trying to secure more paid users' subscription fees to help pay royalties. 
  
 Nowadays, artists make the majority of their revenue from touring, sponsored performances and endorsement deals. Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash earlier this year told Mashable about her "devastating" experience offering music on Spotify. 
  
 "I asked my song publisher to send me my Spotify earnings from the past few years. I knew it was going to bad, but it was devastating," Cash said. "It was hundreds of thousands of streams, and I received a little more than $200. It was not only bad because it’s harder to make a living; I have to go on the road more often, and I have a teenager at home. That's really hard. I hate leaving him." 
  
 Though Spotify confirmed to Mashable on Monday that it pays artists "between $0.006 and $0.0084" per stream, a spokesman emphasized that Spotify pays "back nearly 70% of our revenue to the rightsholders. ... The [per stream rate] doesn't really put the scale and amount that we pay back into perspective." 
  
 .@nycjim '70%' goes to artists..? BS. Not a single musician I know has received more than a tiny fraction of a cent per stream from Spotify. — rosanne cash (@rosannecash) November 3, 2014 
  
 Last year, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich took several albums off Spotify, a move they described as a "rebellion" against the streaming-music service's payment methods. Godrich said, "The reason is that new artists get paid fuck all with this model.. It's an equation that just doesn't work." 
  
 Spotify responded at the time to an email request from Mashable with: 
  
 Spotify's goal is to grow a service which people love, ultimately want to pay for, and which will provide the financial support to the music industry necessary to invest in new talent and music. We want to help artists connect with their fans, find new audiences, grow their fan base and make a living from the music we all love. Right now we're still in the early stages of a long-term project that's already having a hugely positive effect on artists and new music. We've already paid US$500M to rightsholders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach US$1bn. Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music. We're 100% committed to making Spotify the most artist-friendly music service possible and are constantly talking to artists and managers about how Spotify can help build their careers. 
  
 Yorke tried a new music-distribution strategy this year by selling his new album as a $6 BitTorrent Bundle: "If it works well, it could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to people who are creating the work," he said. "Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves. Bypassing the self-elected gate-keepers." 
  
 Spotify is taking Swift's music removal in stride, playfully twisting her lyrics to inform users: "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." 
  
 We <3 @taylorswift13 but she asked us to pull her music off Spotify. 40MM of us say "Stay Stay Stay." http://t.co/lOGMo4qTB7 #justsayyes — Spotify (@Spotify) November 3, 2014 
  
 We were young when we first saw you but now there’s 40MM who say stay, stay, stay. It’s a love story baby #justsayyes pic.twitter.com/n6tHkG8GCq — Spotify (@Spotify) November 3, 2014 
  
 lol Spotify made a playlist called “What To Play While Taylor Is Away” http://t.co/jyenTT7nPf — Veronica de Souza (@HeyVeronica) November 3, 2014 
  
 For now, the only thing on Swift's Spotify page is this message: 
  
 Image: Screenshot/Spotify 
  
 BONUS: 25 Standout Taylor Swift Lyrics From '1989' |||||

In the mood for some Taylor Swift? Well, don't bother heading to Spotify, because she just pulled all her music off the streaming service, in what the Verge says is probably "an attempt to drive sales of her new album, 1989, as well as her earlier albums." The latest album was never available on Spotify, but her back catalog was, and in a blog post today titled "On Taylor Swift’s Decision To Remove Her Music from Spotify," the Spotify team writes that her songs appear on more than 19 million Spotify playlists and that the company hopes "she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone." Swift wrote earlier this year that "piracy, file sharing, and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically," Business Insider notes, and she kept her last album off Spotify for the first few months after it was released. Mashable hypothesizes that Swift was upset after fans started asking why 1989 wasn't available on Spotify and a rep for the streaming service told Mashable last week that was due to "a decision by the artist," adding, "Taylor Swift has nearly 2 million active followers on [Spotify] who will be disappointed by this decision." (Spotify has, however, rather cheekily put together a "What To Play While Taylor’s Away" playlist to console bereft fans.) But a source tells Billboard the main motivation behind the move has to do with negotiations around a sale of Big Machine Label Group, which represents Swift; Big Machine is looking to drive up its sale price, the source says.