“Hip-hop artist Drake has some bad news for streaming-music service Spotify,” Don Reisinger reports for Fortune. “He plans to make his upcoming album, Views From the 6, available exclusively on Apple Music later this month, according to a tweet he posted on Sunday.”
“Drake’s decision to offer exclusive access to his album only on Apple Music is just the latest in a series by artists to limit availability of their albums to favored streaming services,” Reisinger reports. “Other artists, including Adele and Taylor Swift, have snubbed Spotify over concerns that offering their albums on the streaming service would hurt the music industry by eating into an artist’s royalties.”
Reisinger reports, “Unlike Apple Music, which is fully pay-to-play, Spotify offers a free, ad-supported streaming service that has come under fire from artists who say they earn too little for their music.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh ok, Spotify’s descent into also-ran status proceeds apace.
SEE ALSO:
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How Apple Music impressively scaled the music streaming charts – April 4, 2016
Kanye West’s album that he said would ‘never never never be on Apple’ is now on Apple Music – April 2, 2016
Apple Music adds another million subscribers in 1 month, surpasses 11 million paying members – February 12, 2016
Apple Music subscribers could hit 100 million users in 6 years – January 11, 2016
Apple Music nabs 10 million subscribers in 6 months, which took Spotify 6 years – January 10, 2016
Uh-oh, Spotify: People are paying up for Apple Music – November 5, 2015
Why Apple Music will win in streaming music – October 27, 2015
Apple Music takes a huge bite out of Pandora – October 23, 2015
Taylor Swift calls Spotify a ‘start-up with no cash flow’ – August 4, 2015
Oh ok, Spotify listeners are upgrading to Apple Music – July 19, 2015
Apple Music could kill more than just Spotify, it could kill music labels, too – June 25, 2015
Why Apple Music will gut and publicly execute Spotify – June 10, 2015
Spotify CEO claims to be ‘ok’ with Apple Music – June 9, 2015
Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue: Apple Music gunning for Spotify, YouTube, and terrestrial radio – June 9, 2015
Apple Music’s huge advantage over Spotify – June 9, 2015
Apple’s revolutionary Apple Music just might prove its skeptics wrong – June 8, 2015
Apple unveils revolutionary Apple Music service – June 8, 2015
yuck.
What is a drake? A junkfood cake. Yodels just like one.
Apple music artist selection is lacking, unless you like today’s cookie cutter popular music. Popular does not necessarily mean good.
Of course not. The best music is that based on profit share! Everyone knows that! /s 🙂
hate all you want this is great news for Apple Music.
Quack, quack.
I like listening to Zane Lowe’s show on occasion. He plays some good stuff. I like the interviews he does, even if I’m not particularly thrilled with the artists he interviews. I do have to skip past the rap/hip hop crap. I absolutely can’t stand it. But one has to realize that for better or worse that stuff is popular. They wouldn’t play it if it wasn’t. It’s a hard pill to swallow because I think most of it is tasteless, low talent use of samples. I admit there are probably a few artists that are very talented and can create good rap/hip hop songs. But I’m not going to listen to them all to find out which ones are good.
“Oh, OK” is the latest version of “They’re not going to just walk in.”
Another slow news day when MDN has to push Drake and the Watch and its ever-present anti-government propaganda.
I used to like Aubrey Graham when he was Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He played a nice looking, intelligent young man.
Now that he’s Drake, the rapper, in which he presumably is being himself, rather than playing a part, I don’t like him at all. I don’t think it is artistic nor enjoyable to listen to a guy who uses the words s**t, f**k & ni**a more than any other words.
He grew up to become a real disappointment for me. I hope he’ll mature and clean up his vocabulary soon.