![]() Might Apple also have been willing to pay to lock down a streaming-exclusive release agreement for Donda 2 – and perhaps future Ye albums? However, they only went on sale on February 14.īut $100 million is a lot of dough for a mere livestreaming partnership. A fair amount of tickets appear to still be available for Ye’s Donda 2 launch concert in Miami on Tuesday (Feb 22), according to the Ticketmaster site (available seats are indicated by blue dots). Tickets for the new Donda Experience show are being sold by Ticketmaster, and are currently priced between $95 and $282, with VIP packages priced between $850 and $1,100. You’d assume that one element of such a deal would be a livestreaming exclusive partnership for Ye’s Donda 2 launch concert (‘The Donda Experience’), which will be held at Miami’s LoanDepot Park Stadium on Tuesday (February 22), featuring performances from Ye and “additional special guests”.Īpple was the livestreaming partner of a series of Ye “listening parties” for the Donda album before it arrived last year. No one can pay me to be disrespected… Tech companies made music practically free so if you don’t do merch sneakers and tours you don’t eat.” I turned down a hundred million dollar Apple deal. If that figure is accurate, it makes you wonder: what might Apple demand for a nine-figure agreement with Kanye West?Īfter 10 albums after being under 10 contracts. However, it didn’t offer any more detail on the alleged $100 million offer from Apple. Intriguingly, Ye’s all-caps media release this weekend carries the headline: “YE PASSES $100 MILLION DEAL WITH APPLE TO RELEASE DONDA 2 ON STEM PLAYER.” Ye’s first Donda album was released on his own Getting Out Our Dreams II label, and distributed by Universal Music Group-owned Def Jam. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube.Ī media release issued yesterday (February 19) on behalf of Ye reads: “ YE TAKES FULL OWNERSHIP OF HIS MUSIC WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF DONDA 2 RELEASING EXCLUSIVELY ON HIS NEWEST STREAMING DEVICE, STEM PLAYER ON 2.22.22.” ![]() He wrote on Instagram on Thursday (February 17): “ Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. It’s time to take control and build our own.”ĭespite this blockbuster success, Ye has decided to completely shun streaming platforms with Donda 2’s release – while being vocal about his opposition to music’s modern digital model. It’s time to free music from the oppressive system. “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. In the weeks following its release, Donda surpassed a billion streams on Spotify globally. WHAT ARE YOU COPPING? □ 2, due for release on Tuesday (February 22), is the follow-up to Ye’s Grammy-nominated Donda, which achieved one of the biggest ever first weeks for an album on both Spotify and Apple Music when it was released in August last year. In other Ye news, you ready for the Yeezy Gap x Balenciaga collaboration? The roll-out was supposed to drop when Donda 2 was released. “We did more revenue on stemplayer, without the album even being out, than we would have done with the album being out on streaming. “To earn the $2.2 million we made on the first day on the stem player, the album would have had to stream 500 million times,” Kanye wrote, according to Hypebeast. In another since-deleted post, Ye spoke on his earnings. As reported on Revolt, Kanye claims he made $2.2 million from stem players, even without the album. The album was supposed to drop today (), however, it didn’t. It’s time to take control and build our own. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. Today artists get just 12 of the money the industry makes. ![]() Not on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, or YouTube. ” In a since-deleted message online, Kanye said, “ Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Last week, Ye let fans know Donda 2 would only be available on his stem player in order to “free his music from oppressive streaming platforms. Kanye West allegedly made bank off of his stem player.
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