Bono is defending Spotify after Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from the streaming service, claiming her reasoning behind it was money.
Swift told Yahoo Music that she won’t be taking part in an “experiment” that doesn’t pay her and devalues her hard work. It does seem odd that she’s singling out Spotify when her music can be hard for free elsewhere.
U2’s Bono, who caused quite a stir by releasing their latest album for free via iTunes, has defended Spotify while at the Web Summit conference in Dublin this week.
"It's an experimental period," he said, The Guardian reports. "Let's experiment. Let's see what works."
Bono continued on in his defense to Spotify, saying there’s no sense in pointing fingers at them.
"When people pick on Spotify: Spotify are giving up 70 percent of all their revenues to rights owners," he said. "It's just that people don't know where the money is because the record labels haven't been transparent."
He agrees that artists should be compensated for their work more than they are now, but ultimately “the greatest way you serve your songs is to get them heard."
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