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It was a puzzling situation, as Swift and Big Machine had made it clear in public statements that her albums would not be available on free streaming music services: the reason for her back catalogue’s recent removal from Spotify.
Her label, Big Machine, has not responded to a similar question asking for clarification from its side.
Later that day, Google confirmed to the Guardian that the albums were available on Music Key, in response to a specific enquiry about Swift’s music. “Swift’s albums were made available through Spotify’s latest rival, Google’s YouTube Music Key, which launched last week – despite it having the same free and paid tiers, and a similar hardline policy on labels not being able to restrict music to the latter.”Īt the time those words were written, they were correct: Swift’s back catalogue – all her albums bar her latest one ‘1989’ – were accessible through Music Key on Wednesday 12 November, when it was demonstrated to journalists in London. His Facebook post linked to an Observer feature – mine – about Swift’s current dispute with Spotify, which included this statement: More interesting, though, is why Bragg got the idea that Swift had done a deal with YouTube in the first place. If Ms Swift is going to lead that fight for transparency, she will have my full support.” “The time will surely come when content creators have to band together to challenge deals done between rights holders and service providers, details of which are kept from artists and their representatives. “If Ms Swift was truly concerned about perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free, she should be removing her material from You Tube, not cosying up to it.”īragg has now published a new Facebook post apologising to Swift: “I now realise that I was mistaken in this assumption and wish to apologise to Ms Swift for questioning her motives,” he wrote. “She should just be honest with her fans and say ‘sorry, but Sergey Brin gave me a huge amount of money to be the headline name on the marquee for the launch of You Tube Music Key and so I’ve sold my soul to Google’,” wrote Bragg. One implication: Bragg’s Facebook criticism of Swift for seeming to have done a deal with YouTube needs to be reassessed. Clicking through to the former’s albums pops up full-album playlists with a mixture of music videos and static artwork for non-single tracks. Note the “Albums” tab on Beyoncé’s profile within YouTube Music Key, and the lack of one on Taylor Swift’s profile. Taylor Swift’s albums aren’t on YouTube Music Key.
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