Tickets for the new Donda Experience show are being sold by Ticketmaster, and are currently priced between $95 and $282, with VIP packages priced between $850 and $1,100.Ī fair amount of tickets appear to still be available for Ye’s Donda 2 launch concert in Miami on Tuesday (Feb 22), according to the Ticketmaster site (available seats are indicated by blue dots). You’d assume that one element of such a deal would be a livestreaming exclusive partnership for Ye’s Donda 2 launch concert (‘The Donda Experience’), which will be held at Miami’s LoanDepot Park Stadium on Tuesday (February 22), featuring performances from Ye and “additional special guests”.Īpple was the livestreaming partner of a series of Ye “listening parties” for the Donda album before it arrived last year. No one can pay me to be disrespected… Tech companies made music practically free so if you don’t do merch sneakers and tours you don’t eat.” I turned down a hundred million dollar Apple deal. If that figure is accurate, it makes you wonder: what might Apple demand for a nine-figure agreement with Kanye West?Īfter 10 albums after being under 10 contracts. However, it didn’t offer any more detail on the alleged $100 million offer from Apple. Intriguingly, Ye’s all-caps media release this weekend carries the headline: “YE PASSES $100 MILLION DEAL WITH APPLE TO RELEASE DONDA 2 ON STEM PLAYER.” Ye’s first Donda album was released on his own Getting Out Our Dreams II label, and distributed by Universal Music Group-owned Def Jam. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube.Ī media release issued yesterday (February 19) on behalf of Ye reads: “ YE TAKES FULL OWNERSHIP OF HIS MUSIC WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF DONDA 2 RELEASING EXCLUSIVELY ON HIS NEWEST STREAMING DEVICE, STEM PLAYER ON 2.22.22.” He wrote on Instagram on Thursday (February 17): “ Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. It’s time to take control and build our own.”ĭespite this blockbuster success, Ye has decided to completely shun streaming platforms with Donda 2’s release – while being vocal about his opposition to music’s modern digital model. It’s time to free music from the oppressive system.

“Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. In the weeks following its release, Donda surpassed a billion streams on Spotify globally. The album will not be (legally) appearing on any streaming platforms at launch.ĭonda 2, due for release on Tuesday (February 22), is the follow-up to Ye’s Grammy-nominated Donda, which achieved one of the biggest ever first weeks for an album on both Spotify and Apple Music when it was released in August last year. Thursday was the date that Ye publicly confirmed he would be releasing his new album, Donda 2, exclusively via his Stem Player. Now another fascinating story is opening up: Kanye West (who now refers to himself as Ye) claimed in a media release yesterday (Saturday, February 19) that he had generated over $2 million in sales from his Stem Player device since Thursday (February 17). To generate that figure from streaming, at typical industry royalty rates, Snoop’s album would have to be played more than 11 billion times on the likes of Spotify.

Last week, we learned that Snoop Dogg had sold over $44 million-worth of “stash box” NFTs, associated with his new B.O.D.R. ( Bacc On Death Row) album, in just five days. Will 2022 be defined as the year that hip-hop icons taught the music industry valuable lessons about the spending power of so-called ‘super fans’? Stat Of the Week is supported by Cinq Music Group, a technology-driven record label, distribution, and rights management company. MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a single data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry.

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