Singer Taylor Swift performs during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada September 19, 2014.
Singer Taylor Swift performs during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada September 19, 2014. Reuters/Steve Marcus

Count "Friday" singer Rebecca Black recently asked the question why Taylor Swift's newest album "1989" is not on Spotify. A spokesperson of the new breakthrough music app has given the answer.

Mashable interviewed a Spotify spokesperson to get an answer to Rebecca Black's question. Apaprently, Taylor Swift does not want to make her album available on Spotify. This decision should not be seen as anti-Spotify, though, as Tayor Swift also does not want it available on other streaming music services, the spokesperson revealed. The company plans to change this soon, knowing the negative implications of not having "1989" in its music collection.

"There are over 40 million music fans on Spotify and Taylor Swift has nearly 2 million active followers on [Spotify] who will be disappointed by this decision. We are working to bring this album to fans on Spotify as soon as possible," the spokesperson said.

This is not a new thing from Taylor Swift's camp. Her "Red" album did not appear on Spotif immediately after its release. Spotify users had to wait for months. However, it did not affect the album sales. "Red" sold like hot-cakes in its first week, around 1.21 million copies were sole. It appears that the team behind the singer's newest album is still employing the "let's sell albums first" strategy. With Taylor Swift's singing prowess, it will not come as a surprise if the album creates some record despite the current trend in the industry. If "1989" goes platinum, it would be the first record to do so this year.

Taylor Swift, in her article in Wall Street Journal, has voiced her concern about the shrinking business of music industry and the popularity on social media dictating who gets to sign on a contract. According to her, music in the age of streaming -- because of YouTube and smartphones -- should not be treated as something that has no value. For her, music is art and art is both rare and important, not something to be given away free. She believes that music artists should be the ones putting a price tag on their artworks and she hopes that artists would not underestimate their value when that day comes.

Fans however, do not get her logic. Aside from Rebecca Black, most of her fans were disappointed when they did not see the album on Spotify. Some fans complained that they are too broke to spend $12.99 to buy their idol's album. One of the tweets even called for a boycott.

Taylor Swift's new album not on spotify?! I wion't be shaking anything off today I guess. #outrageous #boycottTaylor

— Ben Decker (@BenDecker12) October 28, 2014