The US company Apple, which on 30 launches a music listening service on the Internet, announced that it will pay to artists for licensing music for the first three months free membership to consumers.
The purpose of the launch of the Apple Music music service, which will be Spotify competitor, Apple announced a free usage period without subscription payment from consumers, and intended only to pay “royalties” to publishers and artists after these three experimental days.
The company ended up back on the decision after the American singer Taylor Swift announced on Sunday, in an open letter to Apple, that his latest album, “1989″, would not be available in Service “streaming” Apple Music.
Taylor Swift, who last October sold over a million copies of “1989″ in the first week, said that Apple’s decision not to pay the artists was “shocking, disappointing and totally contrary to a historically progressive company. ”
“Three months is a long time so as not to pay and it is unfair to ask someone working for nothing”, said the singer of 25 years.
In the social network Twitter, one of the vice presidents of Apple, Eddy Cue, wrote on Sunday that “Apple will always ensure that artists are paid.” “We hear you, Taylor Swift and independent artists,” he added.
The service “streaming” music that Apple will launch on the 30th, in about one hundred countries, joins others already on the market, such as Spotify, YouTube, Deezer and Pandora.
According to the International Federation of the Recording Industry, in 2014 about 41 million people paid for a listening subscription of legal music on the Internet through the kind services.
The services of “streaming” currently account for about 23 percent of the digital market and generate about 1.6 billion of revenue, according to the same federation.
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