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Have you watched Taylor Swift's new music video, for her single 'Blank Space' yet? If so, you may have noticed the ad at the end for what looks like a brand new Taylor Swift tablet app. Here, watch for yourself: you'll need...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has published a blog post responding to the last week's controversy surrounding Taylor Swift's decision to pull her back catalogue from the streaming service. "Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music...

You can’t stream Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ on Spotify now. Well, not her version. YouTube’n’Vine stars Us the Duo have been doing rather well with a cover version of the song, which they say has been streamed...

The closing session at yesterday’s Web Summit conference featured U2 frontman Bono, who ended up talking more about streaming than iTunes. “The real enemy is not between digital downloads or streaming, the real enemy,...

Adele’s manager Jonathan Dickins has defended Spotify while suggesting it needs to rethink its non-windowing policy. “Personally, I think streaming’s the future, whether people like it or not, but I don’t believe...

We heard from Taylor Swift last week about the decision to pull her back catalogue from Spotify, and now her label’s founder Scott Borchetta has broken his silence on the matter too. “We determined that her fan base...

Taylor Swift broke her silence over the removal of her catalogue from Spotify yesterday, and it may be the most damaging criticism the company has faced yet from an artist. “Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape...

It’s becoming much clearer what this week’s removal of Taylor Swift’s back catalogue from some streaming music services is all about. The key point: Taylor Swift is not anti-streaming. Her albums are still available...

With Taylor Swift’s entire back catalogue now removed from Spotify, fans using the service can’t stream her tracks, including recent single ‘Shake It Off’. Which, as it turns out, was the most-streamed song on...

By now you’ll surely know yesterday’s big digital music story: Taylor Swift’s entire back catalogue being pulled from Spotify and some of its rivals. Spotify chose to break the news itself with a blog post, telling...

As her new album (1989) looks like it will rocket past 1m sales in its opening week in the US, Taylor Swift has pulled her entire catalogue from Spotify. This is not, as has been the case with her previous albums, a windowing...