WITH big album on sale, Taylor Swift pulls music from Spotify.

    Swift, whose new album is likely to have the biggest opening week of sales in a dozen years, pulled her entire catalog from online music streaming service Spotify on Monday.

    Swift and her record label, Big Machine, requested last week that the singer’s music be taken down, Spotify spokesman Graham James said.

    Swift wrote in an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal in July, “Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically ... Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free ...”

    The Swedish-British company made a public plea to Swift, saying in a blog post, “We hope she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music economy that works for everyone.”

    Swift’s new album, “1989,” was released Oct. 27 and it is expected to top 1 million in U.S. sales when figures were released Wednesday, trade magazine Billboard said.

    Big Machine declined to comment on why it asked for Swift’s albums to be pulled from Spotify, a free service that also offers subscription fees to users who want to eliminate advertising.

    Artists and record companies have at times been at odds with Spotify over money. The company says that about 70 percent of its revenue goes to record labels and publishers, which then have their own separate agreements with artists.

    Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta has been vocal in the past over his dislike about how Spotify and other free streaming services compensate record labels. (SD-Agencies)