Apple Changes Policy After Criticism From Taylor Swift

Once the decision was made by Cue and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Cue called Swift on the phone from her tour in Amsterdam. “Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation”, the artist said, speaking on behalf of all recording artists in the open letter to Apple directors.

Apple announced its Apple Music streaming service earlier this month.

“We had factored that in”, Cue said Sunday.

“I realise that Apple is working towards a goal of paid streaming”.

Gadget and music service giants Apple has decided to change course and pay labels for the rights to stream their music during a 90-day free trial.

However she has supported Apple’s drive to supplant advertising-based free streaming services with one funded by user subscriptions.

“It’s great for artists like me, but for an artist like Taylor Swift whose trying to sell millions of records it’s not so great”. Apple agreed to change the contracts and pay the artists for the service that Apple chose to make free.

Swift went on to explain that her stance is not about getting more money personally – she’s on her fifth album and is managing just fine – but rather about pushing Apple to do what’s right. Taylor later replied, “I am elated and relieved”. Swift sent out a tweet giving thanks to the change in policy and the support now offered to indie artists. “Love, x” and “She should pay us to listen to her music”. “She was thrilled”, he said.

“The first singles that you are putting out as a new artist are just going be able to make it possible to continue doing what you’re doing really, unless you blow-up and become of the biggest stars in the world”, said Lucy Rose.

“I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company,” she wrote. “When I woke up and read Taylor’s note, it solidified quickly that we needed a change”, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services who oversees the company’s music operations, tells Rolling Stone.

The singer and songwriter has been outspoken on the issue of compensating musicians for streaming music.