Ondrej Holzman One of the most anticipated music albums of the year will be released tomorrow. After a break of several years, Adele is about to release another record called "25" and it is sure to be a huge hit. However, it will not be available on streaming services such as Apple Music or Spotify.
Less than twenty-four hours before the release, according to The New York Times streaming services have learned that Adele will not be making her album available for streaming.
A spokesperson for the singer declined to comment, but the NYT cited three sources familiar with the situation as saying Adele was personally involved in the decision.
It's a big blow for streaming services led by Apple Music and Spotify, because by all accounts, "25" will be a huge hit. Adele is coming out with a new album after almost five years and according to the magazine Billboard music publishers expect 2,5 million copies to be sold in its first week. If it does, it would be the best start for a new album since 2000, when N Sync's "No Strings Attached" sold a similar amount.
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Great success was already indicated by the single "Hello" released last month. In the United States, it sold over 1,1 million copies in its first week, making "Hello" the first song to sell over a million in that time.
Meanwhile, "Hello" has taken off on streaming services to great success, but Adele has reportedly been mulling over how to handle streaming the entire album, and ultimately decided to skip Apple Music, Spotify and others — at least to begin with.
This is not the first time that the British music superstar has taken such a step. Already with the first massively successful album "21", she decided not to be on Spotify at first. Among other things, due to the fact that Spotify also offers music streaming for free in addition to the subscription, which many artists do not like. After all, even now there was speculation whether she would release the album "25" only to paid services like Apple Music, but in the end she decided not to do so at all.
The album "25" will be available for purchase starting tomorrow, for example in iTunes for 10 euros.
Then she shouldn't be surprised that Spotify or Apple Music subscribers will buy the album differently and she won't get anything out of it.
Or you can simply wait for it to be on Apple Music in 2-3 months.
Terrible, how will it turn out...
The easiest thing to do is to indicate otherwise to these stars - not to buy and not to listen. Maybe these posers will realize it
somehow your comment doesn't make sense to me
First of all, I don't know what kind of pose decision there is. She has the option of making this choice, so she chose, and I don't know why I should draw any psychological conclusions from her.
Then I believe that there is no reason not to buy a medium (if someone wants to buy it) just because there is no other available... if I want to buy an album on iTunes or CD, then OK and I won't mind if it's not on AM/Spotify. If I subscribe to Spotify or AM, I have to come to terms with the fact that I won't have Áda 25 there for at least some time...just as there isn't a lot of other music there for various reasons. That's as stupid as calling for a boycott of an album that was released on CD just because it wasn't released on iTunes %(
And since none of the contributors who wonder about this is a publishing artist, I doubt that he could really evaluate this decision more qualified than she and her advisers did, based on the knowledge of the licensing conditions of the individual types of distribution.
About fifteen years ago, the music industry fell asleep and was surprised that something like Napster was created. Then Apple blew everyone's pond with iTunes and suddenly it was possible to sell music digitally. Once again, the music industry was asleep, trying in vain to imitate iTunes. Until streaming services came out of nowhere. These are probably not as effective in generating income for artists (after all, an overpriced cake is better), but at least they convince many people to have music legally. And then these "stars" appear, which are more like products. They brag that they won't be here and there and let people buy only what they think is ok. Yes, it is their choice (or rather the choice of those who drive them), but at the same time it is a cry into the darkness.
I guess I wouldn't exactly call this singer a "star", who is a product and something to brag about. Just because it's written somewhere that her album won't be on streaming services, doesn't mean she's bragging about it and shouting it to the world. This whole picture is created by others. And it is she who apparently has quite a successful career ahead of her in the field (according to the evaluation of her singing and acting by experts) and is not struggling forward with a series of scandals and disgusting fads. So let's try to be a little less preoccupied with the negative that comes out of it for some of us.
I'm not an Adele fan, but I think the girl can sing pretty damn well. And calling people who have achieved something a product is such a pose these days (especially popular with those who have not achieved anything in life - so why not be a little sarcastic and smear someone? :-) ).
otherwise... I see your point of view as mistaken. I don't know why an author should do something they don't want to or have nothing to do just to make sure people have their music legally. The optimal thing would certainly be to offer music for free...that would be 100% of people...hooray...but it sounds absurd, doesn't it? It is normal not to steal music and to respect the conditions of the creator. I can accept them or not. But that's all if I don't want to be a thief. And I have to settle it myself. Making excuses about the fact that the author did not convince me to take this step with his distribution policy is quite ridiculous.
And don't be angry, although I originally didn't want to say it in full, unlike Adele, who has actually achieved something and can sing on the one hand and certainly has rational and probably economic reasons for her decision (why not too), so I find posts similar to yours a bit like the whining of someone whose toy was taken away ... something along the lines of ... "but I don't want to buy the album on iTunes or elsewhere and no and no and no ... I want to stream it and Adela is angry for spoiling it..." :)
All that remains is to agree.
So it's terrible - Adele's new album won't be on Apple Music - I'm unhappy, I won't be able to sleep because of it...
I totally understand her. Especially in the month before Christmas, many people like to buy such an album on CD or in iTunes for themselves or someone close to them. If it was available on stream, it won't have that value, a lot of people wouldn't buy it, a lot of people wouldn't make sense as a gift for someone.
I think the album will eventually hit the stream, but not before Christmas.
1. He's in it for the money
2. He wants a best-selling album
3. It will definitely appear on Spotify after the new year :)
Rather, it's just a marketing move to get more written about the release of Kor's new album before Christmas, every advertisement is wanted. Personally, I see no reason why artists should boycott streaming services. For example, I was taught to pay for all hidba. At one time, I only paid smaller artists that I wanted to support, because I don't really want to pay for overpriced CDs to pop stars or greedy publishers who cash in on a dead author. This way, every artist has a share of the performance, and that seems fair to me. If the music is good I will play it regularly and the artist will get more money, if not I will play the album once and the artist will get less.
Adele can easily go to PR/DELE.
So this type of comment is completely unnecessary, or are you telling everyone you don't like and don't care to "fuck off?". This post of yours says more about you than you think. And the nickname Burt? :-)
I don't like Adel. But I still listened a little. She gave her best. She sang it, the sound engineers processed it. And others took over. The next thing that follows doesn't really care. Those of you who think that they are sitting at home somewhere at a PC and decide to put it somewhere or not, you are wrong. Someone else takes care of that. Someone else takes care of everything else. So their strategy. Everyone wants to be seduced.