Taylor Swift removes all songs from Spotify

SOPTIFY has stopped streaming Taylor Swift’s music at her request, setting up a business struggle between the leading provider of a new music distribution system and the industry’s most popular artist.

Singer Taylor Swift. Picture: AP

The music-streaming service said Swift’s management told it to pull the music late last week and it was done on Monday, so all her songs were no longer available to its 40 million users.

“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,” Spotify said. “It’s a love story, baby. Just say yes.”

Swift’s single Shake It Off was the most-played song on Spotify last week.

Many artists complain that the fees Spotify pays to record labels and music publishers, with a portion funnelled to musicians, is too small.