Sources Say That Adele’s 25 Album Will Not Be Available For Streaming

Users are greeted with the following message when they try to listen to the record: “The artist or their representatives have decided not to release this album on Spotify just yet”.

Adele is following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift and refusing to release her much-anticipated new album, “25”, on Internet streaming services.

Tyler Goldman, chief executive, North America, of music streaming company Deezer said the service would not have Adele’s new album at launch. “We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify”, the Los Angeles Times quotes a statement from Spotify.

Her new album 25 is out today and predicted to shift a whopping three million copies around the world in its first week.

This has already been practiced by Taylor Swift and Beyonce for their albums “1989” and “Beyonce” in the last two years. Adele’s 25 was released on Friday 20 November, only her latest single “Hello” is available on streaming patterns.

“25” is being withheld not only from Spotify – which has both paid and free versions, supported by ads – but also from Apple Music and Rhapsody, which do not use the so-called freemium model.

The singer will also reveal during the interview that Sarah Palin can bizarrely be partly credited with her success.

“My own personal view is that record is so massive it wouldn’t make any difference” if it were available for streaming or not, industry analyst Keith Jopling told Reuters, speaking hours before it was known the album would not be streamed. Her debut album, “19”, spawned a hit single in “Chasing Pavements” and led to a Grammy Award for best new artist. Music purchases deliver more profit to the artist and the label than streaming services do. In the mean time, we can’t wait for her to perform tracks from the album live for the first time at the BBC tonight.

“This is a minor issue for Adele, but a major issue for the streaming services”, said Mark Mulligan, a digital-media analyst with Midia Research.

“I don’t think it’s a surprise”.

Her previous album 21 came to Spotify a year after its 2011 release – and it sold 30 million copies worldwide. There are songs about her life as a mother, including the buoyant, shuffling “Sweetest Devotion” and “Remedy“, in which she promises her child, “No river is too wide or too deep for me to swim to you”.

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.