Taylor Swift Shocked By Spotify Response: Entertainers Back Singer's Choice to Ditch Streaming Service

Taylor Swift's brave decision to remove her tracks from her latest album 1989 in Spotify has caused an uproar from both fans and the management from Spotify. Months after her decision, the songstress is surprised to receive a positive response from co-artists who also believe that music should not be for free.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Swift said," I didn't think that it would be shocking to anyone," says Swift. "With as many ways as artists are personalizing their musical distribution, it didn't occur to me that this would be anything that anyone would talk about. But I could never have expected so many text messages, emails and phone calls from other artists, writers and producers saying thank you."

Previously in November when the Swift's popularity has soared high with the release of 1989, she pulled out her songs from the streaming site as she does not want her music for free. Further, reports said that the songstress did this without any further notice from her.

According to Fanbolt, the hitmaker received communication from Spotify bosses who urged her to change her decision. The Blank Space songstress is also said to receive pleas from fans asking her to return her music in the music portal.

Meanwhile, reports from Female First mentioned the singer's biggest challenge in convincing her staff to label her album 1989 and letting them know of its pop influence.

"The biggest challenge this year actually was convincing members of my own team that this was a good call. I'd get called in front of a group of people who have known me and worked with me for years who'd say, 'Are you sure that you want call the album '1989'? We think it's a weird title. Are you sure you want to put an album cover out that has less than half of your face on it? Are you positive that you want to take a genre that you've cemented yourself in and completely switch to a new one that you are a newcomer to?" she said.

Taylor Swift's new album is said to have sold at least 1.3 million copies on its first week, the biggest sales made in just a single week ever recorded in the last 12 years.