Brantley Gilbert and Justin Moore are the latest country stars to pull their music from Spotify.
The news comes one week after Taylor Swift made the decision to take her entire catalog off of the online streaming service. ’1989′ debuted at No. 1 and sold 1.2 million copies in its opening week — something Swift is not so sure would have happened had she allowed free streaming of individual tracks.
“If I had streamed the new album, it’s impossible to try to speculate what would have happened. But all I can say is that music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment,” Swift says. “And I’m not wiling to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.”
Jason Aldean followed suit days later, pulling his newly-released album, ‘Old Boots, New Dirt,’ from the site, though the rest of his catalog remains — for now.
According to Rolling Stone, that’s the same call Gilbert and Moore — who are labelmates with Swift and Gilbert on Big Machine Label Group — have made. Gilbert’s most recent album, ‘Just as I Am,’ and Moore’s latest, ‘Off the Beaten Path,’ are no longer available for streaming on Spotify, leaving just one single for listeners to consume as a teaser.
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