PT on Spotify's mobile app for users in the US, UK, Sweden and Latin America. The video, which was shot in one take, will be vertical, Spotify said in a blog post. Spotify didn't provide terms of the 'Delicate' video deal.

In instances where Spotify does put its might behind an artist's release, like a large campaign for Katy Perry last year, the service opted to offer free promotion to its audience of listeners - the biggest of any streaming music service in the world - rather than outright paying for exclusives.

Spotify, however, has traditionally steered away from album exclusives, which it says are bad for the industry and frustrating for fans by limiting music's accessibility. Apple Music, for example, reportedly cut a multimillion-dollar deal with Drake to launch his 2016 album ' Views' and spent $500,000 for Chance the Rapper to post his ' Coloring Book' mixtape on its streaming music service first for two weeks. Spotify's rivals often pay to secure exclusives from big stars.

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She put her back catalog of songs back on the music-streaming service in June, and when she released her latest album 'Reputation' to streaming services, Spotify got it at the same time as all its major competitors. Since pulling her music from Spotify, Swift has gradually allowed it back into her favor. Subscriptions have turned the music industry around to its first sales growth in more than a decade. It's also been instrumental in popularizing the subscription model, where people pay a monthly fee for all-you-can-eat tunes rather than buying individual digital downloads.

She didn't want to contribute her life's work to an experiment that doesn't fairly compensate artists, she said.īut in the intervening years Spotify has grown to be the world's biggest streaming-music service by listeners, with 159 million monthly active users. She pulled her entire catalog of music off Spotify in 2014 just as her album '1989' was released. Only on ✨ /AHEY6LOSTz- Taylor Swift March 29, 2018Ī few years ago, Spotify was persona non grata in Swift's world. New video for #Delicate at midnight EST tonight.

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