Taylor Swift's record label as pulled all of her music from Spotify as the ready the release of 1989, which is likely to have the biggest opening week sales in a decade. Several artists, including Beyonce, have delayed releasing music on the streaming service to give standard retailers an exclusive window, though Swift has pulled her entire catalogue.

Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift is set to release her album 1989, which is expected to be one of the biggest selling albums of the past 10 years

Spotify spokesman Graham James said Swift and her label requested that her music be taken down last week.

In a piece for the Wall Street Journal in July, Swift wrote: "Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically ... Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free ..."

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Spotify made a public plea for Swift to change her mind, writing in a blog post, "We hope she'll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone."

Swift's music features on 19 million playlists on Spotify. 

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Big Machine declined to comment on why it asked for Swift's music to be pulled. Spotify says 70 per cent of its revenue goes to record labels and publishers, which then have their own separate agreements with artists. 

Artists and record companies have at times been at odds with Spotify over money. The company says that about 70 percent of its revenue goes to record labels and publishers, which then have their own separate agreements with artists.

Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta is a notable critic of how Spotify compensates labels and artists. 

"I think it's a continued race to the bottom," he said last year. "And we're gonna fight to continue to have a value to the artists and the music that we put out."

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