It's a good day for Spotify users because Taylor Swift has ended her bad blood with the service.
The pop star, who famously broke up with Spotify in 2014, on Thursday evening announced that she would make her entire back catalog available on all streaming services at midnight to celebrate 1989 selling more than 10 million albums worldwide. Fortunately, it wasn't some sort of cruel prank.
You can head over to Spotify now to listen to all of Swift's albums, including 1989, Red, Speak Now, Fearless, and Taylor Swift.
Shortly after pulling her music from Spotify in November 2014, Swift in an interview with Yahoo Music, said that streaming services feel "like a grand experiment" that "didn't feel right" to her.
"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 said. "And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."
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Swift had made her opinion on the matter clear months earlier, penning a July 2014 op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which she argued that "piracy, file sharing, and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently."
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More recently, Swift last year joined Paul McCartney and other musicians to call on Congress to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In a letter that ran as an advertisement in several publications, the artists claimed that the DMCA has allowed major companies to profit from streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify, while songwriters and artists see their earnings diminish.
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