New Adele album to be withheld from Apple Music, Spotify, other streaming services
Singer Adele's new album, 25, reportedly won't be made available on streaming services like Apple Music or Spotify when it launches on Friday.

Adele herself was personally involved in the decision, sources told the New York Times on Thursday. That will leave people with the option of buying a digital download from stores like iTunes or Google Play, or else going with an old-fashioned physical copy.
Last week, a rumor claimed that Adele and her team were considering skipping Spotify unless streaming was limited to Premium subscribers, from which labels generate more money. Spotify denied the claim, which simultaneously hinted that Apple had approached Adele about making 25 an exclusive, but had the offer rejected.
The singer may have had the same motives as Taylor Swift, who pulled her music from Spotify a year ago, complaining about weak royalty payments from streaming. Earlier in 2015, Swift briefly threatened to keep her music off of Apple Music -- citing Apple's plan to skip paying royalties for trial listeners -- but the company quickly bowed to pressure.
In October Adele's talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, was rumored to have pitched Apple on a $30 million tour sponsorship deal. The pitch may have even included a request to stock CDs in Apple Stores, which was allegedly turned down.

Adele herself was personally involved in the decision, sources told the New York Times on Thursday. That will leave people with the option of buying a digital download from stores like iTunes or Google Play, or else going with an old-fashioned physical copy.
Last week, a rumor claimed that Adele and her team were considering skipping Spotify unless streaming was limited to Premium subscribers, from which labels generate more money. Spotify denied the claim, which simultaneously hinted that Apple had approached Adele about making 25 an exclusive, but had the offer rejected.
The singer may have had the same motives as Taylor Swift, who pulled her music from Spotify a year ago, complaining about weak royalty payments from streaming. Earlier in 2015, Swift briefly threatened to keep her music off of Apple Music -- citing Apple's plan to skip paying royalties for trial listeners -- but the company quickly bowed to pressure.
In October Adele's talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, was rumored to have pitched Apple on a $30 million tour sponsorship deal. The pitch may have even included a request to stock CDs in Apple Stores, which was allegedly turned down.
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No matter. I'm sure the CD is available elsewhere to download, for those who can't find it through one of the regular streaming services.
What next friday release ?
Disgusting.
People work their ass off to complete albums only to have selfish fu**s promote free ways to fu** Adele and other artists over with ZERO benefit to themselves.
What do you gain really by artists losing hundreds of hours of work and millions of dollars? What?
NOTHING.
It's 2015. Any artist that "withholds" their music from a streaming service might as will just give up.
However, being in the industry if I was asked I would have advised apple to not sell it either.
Remember when NBC decided they wanted "more of the pie" and pulled all its TV content from iTunes Store? All because they had a little hit called HEROES? GRIN. They were so sure apple would buckle but they stood firm. "Same fee as everyone else", so NBC being idiots offered it selling it "exclusively" to Amazon streaming. One BIG problem... Mac people buy, PC people don't. Look at android. I degrees... After just one season of zero sales they came crawling back to Apple and there show was canceled a year later "lack of interest".
I predict one of those two things I mentioned at the top will happen to Adele but I wish apple would NOT sell it too. Let it belly flop then she can come crawling back.
It's 2015. Any artist that "withholds" their music from a streaming service might as will just give up.
There are countless millions of people who won't stream music. Those are the generations brought up on Vinyl (I work in the building where EMI packaged LP's such as Sgt Pepper) and Cassette. We prefer physical media.
To stream you have to have an umbilical cord to the internet. I go places where this is not possible so I take my music with me. All from Vinyl or CD. We generally don't download either.
There is nothing wrong in my eyes with her decision.
Oh, I'm buying music on Vinyl again. Sounds brilliant on my Quad Electostatics.
That's ok there are other ways to acquire it, but you won't get any money for it.
Because, like, theft is so ethical. Don’t like how much something costs? Steal it.
:rolleyes: Apple. Users. Don't. Steal.
That's for poor Android folks who don't want to pay for anything, remember?
I'll just get it for free.
Common thief you are. Perhaps Sharia Law should be applied in this case. Which hand can you do without?
Amazing how entiltled some people seem to think they are. If you won't give it to them free, they'll just steal it.
Unbelievable.
Maybe she'll never let it be streamed. The people who were going to buy it anyway will buy it, and the rest of them weren't willing to pay for it, anyway. (There will probably be a few who were going to just listen to it on Spotify that will buy it, but that only means more money for her) She's popular enough she doesn't have to worry about new listeners and discovery. She'll get the radio and TV airplay to get any new listeners because of who she is.
If she were a small indie artist no-one had heard of, then it wouldn't make sense. Because she's already well known and regarded, she doesn't have to worry.
Just listen to Beats 1. Probably heard half that album earlier today already.