After making his loyal minions throw large sums of money to listen to his upcoming album Donda 2, Kanye West Fans were left baffled when the hotly anticipated LP failed to materialize at midnight on the planned release date, February 22.
Last week, West announced via his social media channels that “Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, Stem Player. Not available on Amazon Spotify or Apple’s YouTube. Today, artists only get 12% of what the industry generates. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own. ”
This cost fans a total of about $230 for a Stem Player—apparently an updated version of the ’90s HitClips digital audio player, or Yeezy’s “first tech product.” ”, according to West — and an earlier copy of Donda 2. This move proved to be quite lucrative for the Westperson who has quit his job harassing estranged wife and her new boyfriend to warn his followers that he brought in $2.2 million in just one day from these devices.
“To make the $2.2 million we made on day one on the original player, the album would have to stream 500 million times,” he wrote on Instagram. “We made more sales on stemplayer, even with no album released, than we did with streaming albums.”
Well, fans are still hoping that the album will still be released around February 22 or for the foreseeable future — despite West’s history of not releasing his album on the promised date and directing listeners to an epidemic. alternative music service to listen to it, like when he urges users to sign up for the Tidal streaming service, of which he is a part owner, to listen Pablo’s life.
