Radiohead's new album isn't on Spotify. So what? Spotify doesn't need it
Digital music and audio | The Guardian 2016-05-14
Summary:
It’s more dramatic to portray Radiohead and Spotify as being at war, but in truth it’s just business as usual for them both
A new Radiohead album must mean a new “war” with Spotify.
As soon as A Moon Shaped Pool was made available on Sunday evening, there was much furrowing of brows, chewing of pencils and alighting on the same point – that it wasn’t available on Spotify. Apart from the first two singles. So, in fact, 18% of the album is on Spotify. But ignore that: the whole album isn’t on Spotify and, as with everything Radiohead do, this immediately took on colossal import.
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