{"id":113327,"date":"2014-11-04T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=113327"},"modified":"2014-11-04T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T05:26:58","slug":"taylor-swift-pulls-songs-off-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/113327-taylor-swift-pulls-songs-off-spotify.html","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift pulls songs off Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music streaming service Spotify is no longer offering Taylor Swift songs at her request, setting up a battle between the industry&#8217;s most popular artist and the leading purveyor of a new music distribution system.<\/p>\n<p>It means Spotify subscribers can no longer access &#8220;Shake It Off,&#8221; the service&#8217;s most-streamed song last week, or any other songs. People who want to hear Swift&#8217;s new album, &#8220;1989,&#8221; will have to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify, which pulled Swift&#8217;s songs on Monday, said that &#8220;we hope she&#8217;ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swift&#8217;s representatives did not immediately return a call for comment. Many musicians have complained that the rise of Spotify and other steaming services have made a big dent in their sales.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More tech news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113277-facebook-user-numbers-for-south-africa-revealed.html\">Facebook user numbers for South Africa revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/113271-new-ipad-air-2-prices-for-south-africa.html\">New iPad Air 2 prices for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/113281-tv-porn-channels-halted-by-court.html\">TV porn channels halted by court<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music streaming service Spotify is no longer offering Taylor Swift songs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":93513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7979,7927,27395],"class_list":["post-113327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-quicknews","tag-spotify","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}