Metro Boomin has raised the prospect that his future albums may not be released on streaming services.
Speaking on Instagram, the super-producer shared a post which said: “A fan needs to stream an artist’s music 20 times a day for a whole year for that artist to make $25 from a fan.”
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Metro wrote over the post: “This is why my next album will probably be the last one streaming.”
Metro is not the first artist to question continuing to release music on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.
Kanye West has stated that he wants to release Vultures 2 directly to fans, skipping streaming distributors.
“We sell albums on Yeezy.com. I got 20 million instagram followers,” he wrote in a text exchange with fan account YeFanatics. “When 5% of my followers buy an album [t]hat’s 1 million albums sold[.] That’s 300k more than the biggest album last year.
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“We sold 1 million items on Yeezy.com on Super Bowl Sunday so we know it’s possible. How do you feel about us not streaming and only selling the album digitally[?]”
Ye followed that up by asking YeFanatics if it was possible to sell a million copies of the album.
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“When we do that we won’t have the streaming companies in control of the artist anymore,” he wrote.
The decision was supported by his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign in response to a fan who criticized the proposal, citing privacy concerns.
“That’s what these streaming services want u to to believe so they can stay on top. Music cost us money and time to make but they don’t want us to get paid for it,” he began.
“There [sic] selling the audience subscriptions and renting our music out while giving us a fraction of a penny [crying laughter emoji]. I hear what you’re saying but we’re already #1 with the first.”
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He concluded: “It’s time to figure out the unlock on how to bring the music straight to our audience and cut the middle man out. Artists are getting raped and that has to stop.”
The much-delayed Vultures 2 still does not have a release date or confirmation regarding how it will be made available to fans.
