Taylor Swift unhappy with Apple Music

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In an open letter, Taylor Swift has criticised Apple’s new music streaming service for planning not to pay artists for a free three-month trial.

Apple Music is similar to Spotify and Jay Z’s Tidal, its music streaming competitors, going for $9.99 for its basic monthly plan. But for its first three months trial period Apple plans to stream Music for free; meaning they won’t be paying artists for sharing their music. And this is what got Taylor Swift mad.

To protest this unfair treatment, Taylor Swift has decided to withhold her 2014 album “1989” from Apple Music, which will be launched June 30.

She explained this while writing on her Tumblr page Sunday in a posting she titled “To Apple, Love Taylor”. Swift who said she was speaking for the music community at large wrote that Apple’s plan not to compensate artists for the 3 months trial was “shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historic progressive and generous company.”

She said, “Three months is a long time to go unpaid.”

This is not the first time she was pulling “1989” from a music streaming company, she had also pulled it off Spotify last November.

Apple is yet to comment on this

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