Taylor Swift's 1989 Album World Tour has finally come to an end in Melbourne, Australia last Dec. 12.
The whole concert has been filmed and will be released soon enough to cover for Swift's long vacation after her World Tour success. Fans have been wondering about how Swift is going to release her concert video for a while and the announcement last Sunday, Dec. 13, will stop the fans from wondering.
Apple Inc. sealed the deal with the 1989 pop star Taylor Swift to own exclusive rights in releasing her world tour concert video through Apple Music, official music streaming service.
Swift even made the announcement herself about the video's release on her Twitter account saying, "Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes. I have a little surprise for you." Reuters reports that the video will be released through Apple Music on Dec. 20, 2015 as confirmed by Apple Inc. announcement on their Twitter account as well.
Swift also tweets about an interview discussing the video to be aired on Beats 1, the official Apple radio station. Apple's confirmation about this interview have not yet been disclosed.
Launched last June of this year, Apple Music is a very young attempt to expand Apple's dominance in digital music from iTunes to music streaming service. This deal with Taylor Swift is giving Apple Music a very good boost in the market since the music streaming arena has been dominated consistently by Spotify.
There has also been friction between Swift and Apple Music's terms on its launch last June. Swift openly criticized Apple Music's terms in her Tumblr post because they decided to not make royalty payments to artists during a three-month free trial of Apple Music.
In her Tumblr post, Swift called the new policy as shocking and disappointing. Swift even threatened to pull out her 1989 tracks from the streaming service.
Swift is not alone in battling the unfair policies of music streaming services. Adele has also withheld her "25" album tracks in music streaming service providers like Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
