{"id":2269924,"date":"2026-02-06T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269924"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:36:54","slug":"taylor-swift-withholds-opalite-video-from-youtube-after-it-ditches-billboard-charts-%e2%94%82-exclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-withholds-opalite-video-from-youtube-after-it-ditches-billboard-charts-%e2%94%82-exclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Withholds &#8220;Opalite&#8221; Video from YouTube After It Ditches &#8216;Billboard&#8217; Charts \u2502 Exclaim!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"e-text-2140\">\n<p>We could be entering a new era for how fans watch music videos, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/artists\/taylor_swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has opted to temporarily withhold her new video for &#8220;Opalite&#8221; from YouTube in protest of the site <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/you-tube-to-no-longer-provide-data-for-billboard-s-outdated-chart-formula\">no longer reporting its streams to the <i>Billboard<\/i> charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This latest video from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review\"><i>The Life of a Showgirl<\/i><\/a>, which stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/artists\/domhnall_gleason\">Domhnall Gleeson<\/a>, is currently streaming on Apple Music and Spotify. It won&#8217;t be on YouTube until Sunday (February 8), according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>This is evidently because YouTube withdrew its streaming data from <i>Billboard<\/i>&#8216;s charts as of January 16. &#8220;<i>Billboard<\/i> uses an outdated formula that weights subscription-supported streams higher than ad-supported,&#8221; YouTube&#8217;s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen explained in a blog post back in December. &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t reflect how fans engage with music today and ignores the massive engagement from fans who don&#8217;t have a subscription.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the chart-obsessed Swift, this was enough for her to hold back the video from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Swift has withheld her music from streaming platforms she disapproves of. Back in 2014, she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/beefs_2014_billy_bragg_says_taylor_swift_boycotted_spotify_to_sell_her_soul_to_google\">took all of her music off Spotify<\/a> in protest of its free tier, eventually <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/taylor_swifts_back_catalogue_returns_to_streaming_services\">returning her music to the service in 2017<\/a> (after Spotify became <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/spotify-exodus-interview-deerhoof-jay-arner\">completely ethical<\/a>?).<\/p>\n<p><iframe height=\"371\" style=\"width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/music-video\/opalite\/1874387735\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source exclaim.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could be entering a new era for how fans watch music videos, as Taylor Swift has opted to temporarily withhold her new video for &#8220;Opalite&#8221; from YouTube in protest of the site no longer reporting its streams to the Billboard charts. This latest video from The Life of a Showgirl, which stars Domhnall Gleeson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Taylor-Swift-Withholds-Opalite-Video-from-YouTube-After-It-Ditches.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269926,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269924\/revisions\/2269926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}