You won’t be streaming Adele’s ’25’ on Spotify

“We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify”, a spokesperson for Spotify told Entertainment Weekly. According to a report from the NY Times, it has been suggested that Adele’s upcoming album “25” might not be available on streaming platforms. At a time of declining record sales, no one sells quite like Adele. Past year Swift pulled her catalog of music from Spotify, citing that it doesn’t fairly compensate writers, producers, artists and creators of music.

Adele was a fairly new singer at that point and had the novelty factor on her side. The fan later posted what appeared to be a tweet from Adele’s record label, XL Recordings, ordering the removal of the “infringing material” and threatening legal action.

Hello, it’s Adele, and she’s going to give the music industry a much-needed boost this year with “25”. But for fans who like to stream their music, this news could be nearly as emotionally devastating as listening to “25” in the first place.

That hasn’t hindered the popularity of her blockbuster 1989 album, which has sold 5.4 million copies since last fall, according to Nielsen Music.

It’s too bad that 25 won’t be allowed on streaming services, because it has a few pretty exciting tracks. In fact, a lot of them seem to deal with exactly the same heartbreak that fuelled 21: five years on, Adele is still, metaphorically speaking, planted on her ex’s lawn at 3am, tearfully lobbing her shoes at his bedroom window.

“Hello” has also been streamed more than 156 million times on Spotify already, which puts it ahead of all of her other songs except for “Rolling in the Deep”, which has been streamed 188 million times.

Regardless, Billboard is speculating that the LP stands to set a record for first-week sales with sources claiming that they will ship 3.6 million physical copies. “This girl came in and just said, ‘I’m doing something great, ‘” he said.

The record was reportedly leaked online earlier this week, and several people had a sneak peak into the hit music.