Taylor Swift removes her music from Spotify

The singer is currently promoting her freshly released album "1989", and in a bid to drive up sales of the album, all her songs have been removed from online music website Spotify. Her label, Big Machine Label Group, is currently on sale. The hasty removal of songs could be an attempt to drive up the sales price of the label. It's not unusual for artists to withhold new material from streaming services- Beyoncé, The Black Keys and Coldplay have all withheld their latests albums in a bid to encourage sales. What is unusual here is Swift's decision to remove all her back catalog from the service. Her older albums only remain on rival website Beats Music, owned by Apple. Spotify has experienced a lot of criticism from artists who claim the company does not pay enough royalties to it's artists. 1989 is set to draw in the biggest record sales in the first week since Eminem's "The Eminem Show" sold 1.322 million copies in its first week of sale. 

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