While Swift may have returned to the service, several big names still remain off Spotify until this day. Here are the high-profile artists whose music is not currently available on Spotify. Case in point? Taylor Swift famously pulled her entire back catalog off the streaming service in protest of its business model back in 2014, although she later added it back (reportedly in celebration of her fifth studio album, 1989, selling 10 million copies worldwide). Spotify, in particular, has been called out for paying artists very little, even though the company claims to give back much of its revenue to musicians. Obviously, this doesn’t sit well with certain famous artists who, in return for what they believe are Spotify’s manipulative practices, refuse to give the service access to their music.
Music streaming has changed the landscape of the music industry over the last several years, giving consumers even more reason to not purchase the music they listen to (and pushing album sales to plummet to all-time lows). Spotify has become one of the most ubiquitous and successful online music streaming services by providing access to a huge collection of music from almost every artist you can think of for free (with ads) or for just $10 a month (for the ad-free service).
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