Kanye West Is Dominating Spotify Even After Releasing “Donda 2” On Stem Player

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Kanye West Is Dominating Spotify Even After Releasing Donda 2 On Stem Player

Kanye West tops US Spotify for straight two days.

Kanye West has finally dropped his highly anticipated new album “Donda 2“, but not in the usual streaming form. After announcing it earlier this week, the rapper released the album on his own newly launched Stem Player. The Stem Player is a music gadget that costs roughly $200 and allows users to separate music into “stems.”

The album was only going to be available on Ye’s Stem Player until less than a week before the release. “Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player,” West wrote on Instagram. “Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube. 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.”

Even though the rapper made over 2 million dollars through Stem Player sales in the first two days, the album was still pirated on the internet in a large number. The new album which wasn’t even dropped on Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, it still boosted Ye’s streaming numbers on the platforms.

Kanye posted more than a dozen Donda 2 compositions on Stem Player on Thursday. The excerpts were taken from Ye’s Donda 2 event, which took place this week in Miami. It’s unknown whether he’ll release more variations in the future. “True Love,” “Get Lost,” “Louis Bags,” and “First Time In a Long Time” are among the new Donda 2 tracks.

Donda, which was released in August, gave Ye his eleventh consecutive No. 1 start on the Billboard 200, selling 309,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Donda outsold Ye’s previous albums, Jesus Is King and Ye, which debuted with 264,000 and 208,000 album-equivalent units, respectively.

According to Chart Data, the rapper was the top streamed artist on US Spotify for straight two days, on 25th and 26th February. Not only Spotify, but the rapper is also dominating Netflix with his recently released “jeen-yuhs” docuseries.

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