Spotify may allow musicians to withhold albums from free service

Report claims Coldplay were in line to be the first artist to benefit from change in policy on music-streaming service

Spotify is reviewing its policy of not allowing musicians to reserve their albums for paying subscribers only, making the music inaccessible to the music-streaming service’s free users.

Since its launch in 2008, the company has maintained a policy of all its music being available to both free and paying users, with the strategy one of the main reasons Spotify fell out so publicly with Taylor Swift in 2014.