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Adele snubs Spotify and Apple Music: New album '25' will NOT be available for streaming when it is released on Friday

Claimed service will not be available on any streaming service
Spotify confirmed it will not carry the album

By Reuters and Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:13 EST, 19 November 2015 | Updated: 17:36 EST, 19 November 2015

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Adele's much-anticipated new album '25' will not be available for streaming on major digital services such as Spotify and Apple Music, a music industry source said on Thursday.

The source said Adele's XL Recording label was not making '25' available on streaming platforms when it is released on Friday.

Spotify confirmed to Dailymail.com the album will not appear on its service.

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Adele's much-anticipated new album '25' will not be available for streaming on major digital services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

'We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify,' the streaming service said.

'We hope that she will give those fans the opportunity to enjoy 25 on Spotify alongside 19 and 21 very soon.'

The New York Times first reported the move, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Adele's representatives declined to comment.

The album is the first by the British singer since '21' in 2011 which won six Grammys and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

'25' is expected to be the biggest selling album of the year, following record breaking downloads and views for the first single 'Hello,' which was released in October.

HOW THE STREAMING SERVICES COMPARE
Service	Cost
Apple Music	Apple Music will cost $9.99 a month or $14.99 for a family plan (up to six family members) - both with a three-month free trial
Tidal	$9.95-a-month for standard sound quality and $19.99-a-month for 'lossless high fidelity sound quality' (£9.99 and £19.99 in the UK)
Spotify	Free level with adverts, Premium $9.99-a-month service (£9.99 in the UK)
Beats Music	$9.99-a-month or $99 per year
Pandora	$4.99-a-month for Pandora's ad-free internet radio service
Deezer	Free with adverts, $9.99-a-month for Premium+ (£9.99 in the UK)
Rdio	Free with adverts, Rdio Unlimited costs $9.99 (£9.99 in the UK) and US users can also get Rdio Select for $3.99 a month with limited downloads

The decision by Adele and her record label mirrors the 2014 decision by American country-pop singer Taylor Swift to refuse to offer her album '1989' to streaming services.

Swift made the decision after writing an op-ed on how artists should value their music and not offer it for free.

'1989' went on to become the biggest selling album in the world in 2014 with estimated sales of more than 8.5 million copies.

Swift in July agreed to put '1989' on Apple Music, days after it did an about-face and agreed to pay artists during a free trial of its new streaming music service.

WHY TAYLOR LEFT SPOTIFY

Taylor Swift removed her entire back catalog from music streaming service Spotify as she was promoting new album 1989.

It sold 1.287 copies in its first week, just shy of Britney Spears' record for the biggest-ever album weekly sales by a female artist (1.319 million).

'If I had streamed the new album, it's impossible to try to speculate what would have happened,' Taylor told Yahoo of leaving Spotify.

'Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

'And I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music.'

However, she later made the album available on Apple Music after forcing the technology giant to change its stance on paying artists during its three month trial period.