Taylor Swift shocked her fans when she decided to have all her music removed from Spotify. Now the singer has finally opened up about the surprising decision and revealed exactly why she did it.
Taylor believes that art should have value, and when her music was on the streaming service, she felt it changed the value of her work.
"I think there should be an inherent value placed on art. I didn't see that happening, perception-wise, when I put my music on Spotify," she told Time Magazine.
Taylor Swift has had enormous success this year (PNP/WENN.com)
She claims that she doesn't like premium package that Spotify offers in order to access her albums because of the impression it gives.
“That places a perception of value on what I've created. On Spotify, they don't have any settings, or any kind of qualifications for who gets what music," she explained. "I think that people should feel that there is a value to what musicians have created, and that's that."
Taylor Swift is proud of her new album 1989 (Instagram/Taylor Swift)
Taylor is especially proud of her decision because she believes it's important to take steps to fix the decreasing record sales in the music industry.
"Everybody's complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody's changing the way they're doing things,” she also said. “They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales."
Taylor Swift's new album 1989 was released at the end of October and reached number one in both the US and UK.
