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Swift, one of the world's best-selling pop stars, also made
her music available on Pandora, Amazon.com and Tidal streaming
services, her management team said. Her catalog had previously
only been available on Apple Inc's Music service.
The pop star's management said the latest decision to return to
all streaming services was taken to celebrate her album "1989"
selling over 10 million copies worldwide.
"Taylor wants to thank her fans by making her entire back
catalog available to all streaming services at midnight," her
management's Instagram account called Taylor Nation said late on
Thursday.
The move coincided with the release on Friday of "Witness," a
new album by Perry, Swift's pop industry rival with whom she has
a long-running personal feud. Swift, 27, has no new album to
promote.
Swift pulled all her music off Spotify and other streaming
services in November 2014 after writing an opinion piece in the
Wall Street Journal saying that "piracy, file sharing and
streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales
drastically... Valuable things should be paid for. It's my
opinion that music should not be free."
Six months later she struck a deal with Apple Music for her
"1989" album after Apple bowed to pressure and agreed to pay
artists during a free trial of its new streaming music service.
The announcement by Swift may ramp up rivalry with Perry, 32,
who released her new album's first single, "Swish Swish," last
month. She told talk show host Jimmy Fallon the song was "a
great anthem for people to use whenever somebody's trying to
hold you down or bully you."
Swift's 2014 single "Bad Blood" has been seen as directed at
Perry, and the "Firework" singer admitted recently that the two
were not friends.
"That's true, there is a situation. Honestly, it's really like
she (Swift) started it and it's time for her to finish it,"
Perry told talk show host James Corden in May. She said the feud
stemmed from a disagreement over backup dancers.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant)
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