Last year, Taylor Swift pulled out all her music from the music streaming service Spotify to show she's against low-royalty or even free streaming arrangements.
"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," she explained in a statement, as noted by Time.
"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," she added, as quoted by The Guardian.
Swift reiterated her position against free music streaming recently in the wake of Apple Music's three-month free streaming trial offer, showing her consistency in advocating for the welfare of musicians and songwriters. She posted an open letter addressed to Apple, saying that she is not letting Apple Music have access to her latest album "1989" for free.
"I'm sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free 3 month trial to anyone who signs up for the service. I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months. I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," she said in the letter, which was posted on her Tumblr account.
"This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows," she clarified. "This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success."
"This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt," she went on. "This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field...but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs."
"These are not the complaints of a spoiled, petulant child. These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles who are afraid to speak up publicly because we admire and respect Apple so much. We simply do not respect this particular call," she explained.
In the wake of the singer's protest, Apple had conceded and recently responded by saying that Apple Music "will pay artist for streaming, even during customer's free trial period," as announced on Twitter by Eddy Cue, Apple senior VP for Internet software and services.
"We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple," Cue added in response to Swift's "To Apple, Love Taylor" open letter.
Looks like all's well that ends well. Spotify must be shaking in its boots now
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