Drake s new album will be an Apple Music exclusive

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Canadian hip-hop superstar Drake was Spotify's biggest artist of last yr, clocking up a ridiculous-sounding one 8bn streams across 46 million listeners.
These days, 3 years since his final solo studio album 'proper', 2013's Nothing Was The Same, Drake continues in order to pull in 21. 5m
monthly listeners within the system.
It means he's Spotify's seventh biggest artist right now - and that more than a fifth associated with Daniel Ek's total worldwide active users believed Drake in the past four weeks.
Later this month, however, those listeners could be in for a shock.
Drake has just confirmed that his new album, Views (Aka 'Views Through the 6')
, will become released on Friday, April 29.
The best news: it's going to be an Apple Music streaming special - in certain sense, at least.
Details of the record were revealed upon Beats 1's OVO Audio Radio
(via Apple Music) yesterday, where Drake said: "Thank you Apple Songs - always, man; many thanks to Jimmy [Iovine] and thank you to everybody who supported the two singles that all of us dropped [this week], Pop Style and A single Dance.
"I'm excited, guy. We're close and I have got something special in order to share with you. "
Drake then tweeted that the release would end up being an Apple Music exclusive
- before deleting the missive - but Apple has since confirmed in order to reporters that he has been telling the truth.
We're however to know what form this exclusive will take and, crucially, how long it will shut other platforms such as Spotify - plus TIDAL
, Google Play
and Deezer
- out of the game.
What we should do understand for sure is that this story has been a long time arriving.
Drake's profile on Spotify.
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Whispers last year suggested that Apple Music had signed a $19m
deal with Drake, which included some assurances of unique material.
Many wondered exactly how such a deal would certainly shake out, but since then, we've seen a number of nods towards a special partnership between the artist and brand:

In June final year, Drake appeared upon stage at WWDC within San Francisco to trumpet, amongst other things, the possibilities of Apple Music's Connect
platform. He was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the classic Apple logo;

Drake's greatest single to date, Hotline Bling
, showed up a month later. It was boosted by a colourful video which, it later emerged, was paid for in full by Apple. It currently offers over 654m views on YouTube/Vevo;

The particular OVO Sound Radio
programme, which displays artists signed to Drake's OVO label as properly as other emerging works, debuted on Apple Music's Beats 1 nine a few months ago. So far, OVO has recorded and 'aired' 19 shows on the particular platform;

Drake & Future's US Simply no. 1 mixtape, What A Period To Be Alive
, was released since a windowed Apple Songs streaming seks maturbasi tercantik putih dan mulus exclusive in October last year. It ultimately arrived on other platforms including Spotify;

An OVO signing, the particular mysterious R&B duo DVSN
released their own debut album as a good Apple Music exclusive final 30 days
;

2 new singles from Sights
, Pop Style and One Dance, were released a week ago and, officially speaking, are 'Apple Music exclusives'.

In terms of streaming's exclusivity battles, this is perhaps the greatest deal yet: Apple Songs going out of its way to raid the particular appeal one of Spotify's most prominent superstars.
After that again, the nature of this kind of deal is usually no longer anything such as anomalous.
As MBW covered last month, the number of blockbuster artists holding back material from Spotify for also a limited period keeps growing all the time.
To a range of degrees, it's a strategy that will has been followed by performers including Gwen Stefani, The writer Z, Coldplay, The 1975, Dr. Dre, Taylor Swift plus Kanye West.



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Drake was notable simply by his absence at the almost all star TIDAL launch press conference in New York last year, where the likes of Kanye West, The writer Z, Jay Cole, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Usher, Rihanna and Alicia Keys made an appearance.
He appears to have placed his bets elsewhere?Music Business Worldwide