Kanye West’s $200 Stem Player will be the only way to get his next album, Donda 2
Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge Platform-exclusive content is one of the best ways to juice hardware sales, and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, announced via Instagram that his next album, Donda 2, will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube."
While Ye's reasoning is separate from other artists who've recently spoken out about Spotify's Joe Rogan situation and the stark difference between his $200 million deal vs. how much it pays them, the conclusion is the same. As he wrote in another post, Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It's time to free music from this oppressive system. It's time to take control and build our own. Go to stemplayer.com now to order."
The album is...