Adele’s 21 is Named Greatest Album of All

Reports indicate that Adele and her management team are pushing Spotify to only offer her 25 album to paid subscribers.

A Spotify executive told The Verge that no one has asked them to feature 25 as a premium-only album. Spotify and Apple did not respond to requests for comment. Adele is now the one reflecting on breaking another’s heart instead of mending her own.

Adele’s new “25” album could be joining Beyonce’s iTunes-exclusive album and Taylor Swift’s “1989” in the not-on-Spotify list if the music streaming service doesn’t change how it runs things. The British band’s upcoming “A Head Full of Dreams” album, which is slated for release on December 4, could also be excluded from the music streaming service’s list.

Based on chart position dating to 1963, Billboard magazine has named Adele’s Grammy award-winning 2011 album “21” the greatest of all time.

Can Spotify miss out on the biggest album of the year, again? Ongoing negotiations between Adele and Apple after her rumored departure from Spotify may lead to a solid partnership between the two for future ventures as well.

On top of that, Coldplay also kept a few of its albums from Spotify for months, including “Ghost Stories” and “Mylo Xyloto“.

Her debut single from her third album, Hello, sold a whopping one million digital tracks in its first week, the first song ever to do so.

Meanwhile, Adele is preparing to promote her forthcoming album with multiple appearances in the coming weeks. Artists will have to rethink their monetization strategies, and Bitcoin will play an important role in the future of the music industry.

Whether 25 hits streaming services when it’s released worldwide on November 20th is still in question, but it looks like the album will eventually make its way to paid-only streaming services at the least. Or if she’s just going to double the number of years between each successive release, perhaps the next album will be “33”. Apparently Apple had (unsurprisingly) tried to get Adele to sign an exclusive with their platform, but were apparently rebuffed by the singer and her team.