Adele's '25' will not be available on major streaming services

Adele performs at the 17th NRJ Music Awards ceremony in Cannes, France.

Spotify has released a statement to Mashable about Adele's decision to withhold 25: "We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify. We hope that she will give those fans the opportunity to enjoy 25 on Spotify alongside 19 and 21 very soon."

 

Sorry, streaming fans — Adele's 25 will not be available on popular services like Spotify and Apple Music.

The album, which will be released on Nov. 20, won't appear on major streamers, the New York Times reports. Adele was "personally involved" in the streaming decision.

 

Expectations are high for the singer's hotly-anticipated third release. Her U.S. label, Columbia Records, will ship 3.6 million physical copies of the album to stores, and its first-week CD sales are projected to be around 1.5 million, Billboard reports.

It's not totally surprising that Adele is keeping 25 off streaming sites. Her Grammy-winning last album, 21, wasn't available on Spotify for years because the singer wanted the service to only make it accessible to paying subscribers.

However, that doesn't seem to be good enough these days either. Apple Music requires a monthly user subscription of $9.99, but Adele is still icing out that streaming option for 25.

Adele isn't the first major artist in recent memory to rebuke streaming. Taylor Swift removed her entire catalogue from Spotify last November. Apple Music was almost in the same boat — but not for long, after caving to Swift's request that the service pay artists for free trials.

Similarly, Beyoncé didn't put her highly successful 2013 surprise album, Beyoncé, on Spotify until 11 months after its release.

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