Taylor Swift dumps Spotify: What does it mean for music industry?

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Taylor Swift dumps Spotify: What does it mean for music industry?

The singer effectively dumped Spotify by removing all of her albums from its catalogue. For more on what this means for the music industry, Steve Knopper joins Take Two.

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 07: Seven-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift took the European leg of her blockbuster The RED Tour show to Berlin's, O2 World playing to a capacity crowd of more than 10,700 fans on February 7, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for TAS)

The singer effectively dumped Spotify by removing all of her albums from its catalogue. For more on what this means for the music industry, Steve Knopper joins Take Two.

Singer Taylor Swift's new album 1989 is expected to sell 1.3 million copies, or more.

It could be the biggest album of the year.

But one place you won't find it - Spotify.

On Monday, Swift delivered the message to the music streaming service that they are never ever ever getting back together.

The singer effectively dumped Spotify by removing all of her albums from its catalogue.

For more on what this means for the music industry, Steve Knopper joins Take Two.