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Taylor Swift -

In 2014, Swift pulled all of her music off of Spotify.

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Taylor Swift -

"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for," said Swift.

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Beyoncé -

Beyoncé's 2013 self-titled album wasn't available on Spotify until around a year after its release.

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Jay-Z - Tidal was set up to be a solution to the problem of artists being taken advantage of by large corporate companies like Spotify. Tidal promised to pay artists fairly. Jay-Z was instrumental in its beginnings and is still a major shareholder.

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The Beatles -

For a long time, none of their catalog was on Spotify, because they had an exclusive deal to sell their music on iTunes.

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Garth Brooks - Brooks doesn't have any time for music streaming, saying that even YouTube is "The Devil."

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Garth Brooks -

Brooks gave in and started streaming on Amazon Music in 2016. He's now available to listen to on many other outlets, including Spotify.

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Adele -

Adele's album '21' wasn't originally available on Spotify, and then she wanted it only to be available to paying subscribers.

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Prince -

In 2015, Prince pulled his music from Spotify and every other streaming service (except Tidal).

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Neil Young - Young pulled his music off Spotify and other streaming platforms because he thought that the sound quality was terrible.

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Neil Young - "I don’t need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution,” said Young when asked why he wasn't on popular streaming platforms.

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AC/DC -

AC/DC also wasn't happy with Spotify and the way the company pays artists, but eventually their music became available on it in 2015.

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Coldplay -

The band decided to withhold their 2014 album 'Ghost Stories' from Spotify for months.

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Coldplay -

Despite this, the album still made it to number one on the Billboard chart.

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The Black Keys - The Black Keys have been very explicit about their opinion of Spotify and how it treats artists.

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The Black Keys -

Patrick Carney from the band has an issue with how rich the company and the owner is, saying “the owner of Spotify is worth something like $3 billion... he’s richer than Paul McCartney and he’s 30 and he’s never written a song.”

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Led Zeppelin -

The '60s band didn't reach an agreement with the folks at Spotify to have their music streamed on the platform until late 2013.

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Pink Floyd - In 2013, the surviving members of the band expressed their serious ill feelings about the streaming business model.

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Thom Yorke -

Thom Yorke's band Radiohead have been giving it to the system. He's spoken strongly against streaming services like Spotify, too.

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Thom Yorke - When speaking with the Guardian, Yorke said, "I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry."

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Pete Townshend -

The leader of The Who is a fan of Spotify as a user, but thinks that the people who run it are crooks.

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Bob Seger -

None of this legends catalog is available on Spotify.

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Beck -

Beck is of the opinion that there will be a major shift, that something is going to give because streamers pay artists so little.

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Beck -

"What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs," Beck said in an interview in 2013.

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Amanda Palmer -

Amanda Palmer's main issue with streaming services is that they profit hugely off of music but don't feed anything back into the creation of music.

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David Byrne -

In 2014, David Byrne of the Talking Heads spoke in an interview about how he thinks that the biggest threat to the future of music is streaming sites.

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Aloe Blacc -

The souls singer spoke out against how Spotify pays artists, saying: "Our work clearly does have value, of course, or else it would not be in such high demand. So why aren’t songwriters compensated more fairly in the marketplace."

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King Crimson -

None of the 1970s progressive rock band's music is available on any streaming platforms.

Sources: (The Guardian) (Ranker)

See also: Artists that wrote iconic songs in their teens

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