Apple performed a swift about-turn last night over its policy of not paying royalties to musicians during the three-month trial period for its music-streaming service. The music industry has just one name to thank for the extra dollars that will land in their bank accounts as a result: queen of everything, Taylor Swift.
Swift has achieved the impossible in that she has persuaded notoriously inflexible Apple to change its policy within a matter of hours of publishing a blog post on Tumblr threatening to withhold her latest album, 1989, from the service. But in the process she has achieved another remarkable feat — she has united the music industry and healed a widening rift between musicians and Apple that no-one outside of the music business even realised had formed.
By: Katie Collins,
