Kanye West to ditch Spotify and Apple Music with new Donda 2 album

Kanye West has announced that his forthcoming album, Donda 2, will launch exclusively on his own Stem Player device. In an impassioned Instagram post (opens in new tab), the rapper shocked fans with the revelation that his new music – which he intends to debut at a February 22 launch concert – wouldn’t be releasing on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or YouTube. “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes,” West wrote in the caption accompanying the post.

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