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# 10 Major Acts Missing From Every Streaming Music Service – Jan. 2015 Edition
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/10-major-acts-missing-from-every-streaming-music-serivce-jan-2015-edition/
- Published: 2015-01-09T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-09T13:00:00.000Z
- Description: 2014 was a major growth year for streaming music, but it was also the year that a few major artists decided to very publicly pull their tracks off. Still other. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/01/10-major-acts-missing-from-every-streaming-music-serivce-jan-2015-edition.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Streaming, Brooks's, Friends in Low Places, Garth Brooks, Justin Timberlake, Nashville, Spotify, Taylor Swift, Tennessee, Trisha Yearwood, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![no streaming](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c732c34a970b-200wi "no streaming")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c732c34a970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

2014 was a major growth year for streaming music, but it was also the year that a few major artists decided to very publicly pull their tracks off. Still other veteran acts have managed to resist the lure of streaming and never allowed their catalogs to ever be streamed. The top 10 holdouts:

In no particular order:

- **[![taylor swift](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d0bbe37b970c-150wi "taylor swift")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d0bbe37b970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Taylor Swift** – New music only available on YouTube
- **Jason Aldean –** Unavailable on Spotify
- **Prince** \- Unavailable on YouTube
- **Garth Brooks** \- Unavailable on all services
- **Bob Seger** \- Unavailable on all services
- **Tool** \- Unavailable on all services
- **King Crimson** – Unavailable on all
- **Pete Townshend** – Unavailable on all services
- **Thom Yorke** – Unavailable on all services
- **The Beatles** – Unavailable on all services

*via [Rolling Stone](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/artists-refuse-stream-music-20150102?ref=hypebot.com)*

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