Guess who spurred the decision?

In the wake of Taylor’s Swift’s Spotifygate, Sony Music Entertainment will reconsider licensing songs to free, ad-support music services.

“A lot of conversation has taken place over the last week in the light of that,” said Kevin Kelleher (EVP and CFO of Sony Music) at Sony’s investor relations day. Sony includes Columbia, RCA and Epic Records and is home to major label stars like One Direction, Pitbull, Calvin Harris and Carrie Underwood.

“The key question is, are the free, ad-supported services taking away from how quickly and to what extent we can grow those paid services?” he continued. “What it all really comes down to is how much value are the music company and the artist getting from the different consumption methods.” [via Variety]