Taylor Swift Left Spotify

The esrtwhile country singer has removed her entire music album from the world's largest subscription streaming service, Spotify.

She has already been a vocal critic of music streaming, writing in the Wall Street Journal that platforms like Spotify have contributed to the music industry’s ongoing financial decline.

The said removal of Swift from Spotfy would surely disaapoint her avid fans, but will definitely work just fine for the singer.

The decision, however, isn't all that surprising considering 1989 wasn't even available on the service due to a "decision by the artist" according to their spokesperson.

The first-week sales projections for 1989 have climbed steadily, and the album is now expected to have the biggest first-week sales of any album in the U.S. since The Eminem Show in 2002.

Taylor Swift blames streaming services for this ongoing decline, but that’s a short-term view of the industry’s financial woes. Album sales have been in freefall since 2000, when Napster made stealing music much simpler than buying it. U.S. album shipments declined from about 13 billion that year to about 4 billion in 2010, the year before Spotify arrived on American shores, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. It’s true that Spotify and other streaming services have caused a decline in digital album sales, but there’s no evidence that records bought via the iTunes Store were ever going to make up for revenue lost from the collapse of the CD market.