Apple has reversed its payment policy after Taylor Swift said she would refuse to allow the company to stream her album 1989. The superstar penned an open letter on Sunday morning, shaming the tech giant for its 'shocking' decision not to pay artists during a three-month free trial offered to subscribers. After hours of negotiations, the firm made a U-turn and will now pay every musician whose work is featured during the trial, which starts on June 30. 'We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists,' wrote Apple vice president Eddy Cue on Twitter, after he personally phoned the platinum-selling singer to deliver the news.Singer-songwriter slammed policy not to pay for music in an open letter'We don't ask you for free iPhones,' she wrote in scathing Tumblr postApple VP personally phoned Swift to tell her of U-turn on Sunday eveningArtists will now be paid on a per-stream basis when trial starts on June 30
_ is set to go worldwide at the end of June, with monthly subscriptions costing $9.99 - or $14.99 for a family of up to six people. Swift said that 1989 would not appear on _ - although she stopped short on pulling her entire catalog.