![]() “I just wanna bring as much beauty to the world as possible. Respect Jordan.” (Jordan had declined to attend his show, according to a photo ‘Ye posted on Twitter.) He closed with a preview of a video game he worked on called Only One, prefacing the heavenly montage with, “The idea of the game is my mom traveling through the gates of heaven.” He played it twice. At one point, West even blasted the Nike diss “Facts” before hushing “Fuck Michael Jordan” chanters: “No ‘Fuck Michael Jordan.’ I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Jordan. “It’s been a hard struggle, but I feel so happy, so much joy to be actually following my dreams without people shitting on me.” He ran through a lengthy list of thank yous that included Jay Z, Adidas and the fans who supported the music, purchased the Yeezys and believed in him. “This album is really a gospel album,” West said during his closing remarks. Lamar Odom Makes First Public Appearance at Kanye West's Fashion Show Timelines went wild when West name-dropped Ray J, commented on Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna’s alleged relationship and this one chin-stroking lyric: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ I made that bitch famous.” He also embraced his meme-dom, at one point rapping, “I love you like Kanye loves Kanye.” In un-Kanye-like fashion, he kept the mic from his lips and attempted to blow out the Garden’s sound system with The Life of Pablo. There were moments of darkness, a la Yeezus, soul claps from the College Dropout ‘Ye and a wealth of shit-talking lines but also a sense of comfort in giving zero f-s about what critics had to say about his music or clothing line. The final product sounded like a collection of ‘Ye’s previous work combined. No pamphlets or liner notes were handed out to attendees (though other features included Rihanna and Kid Cudi), but the long-awaited album was an ear party from start to finish. ![]() All Rights Reserved.Flanked by an entourage that included Pusha T, Travi$ Scott, Don C, Virgil Abloh and Vic Mensa, West was the life of his own party. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. "But it really speaks to benefits of streaming services having exclusives with popular artists." "Tidal isn't Spotify when it comes to reach, so 'Pablo' is a really great number," Bakula said. Related: Jay Z's TIDAL music service to be owned by artists The first is its premium tier of $9.99 and the second is its hi-fi subscription, which is $19.99 per month.Īccording to the company, 45% of its subscriber base is the hi-fi subscription tier.ĭaniel Ek, founder of streaming rival Spotify, revealed that the service eclipsed 30 million subscribers earlier this month. Unlike other streaming services, Tidal has two subscriptions tiers and no free option for listeners. This news came a day before its one year anniversary. The Jay Z owned music service also announced on Tuesday that it eclipsed 3 million subscribers across 46 countries. Related: Kanye West: 'My album will never never never be on Apple' West's "Life of Pablo" was pirated over 500,000 times when it was released. ![]() There are negatives to being exclusive to a streaming service, however, and one of the major ones is piracy. "Kanye being outspoken and being Kanye helps get it there, but it doesn't make it without being a quality album," Bakula said. "Life of Pablo" had a highly promoted launch in February with West releasing the album following a performance on "Saturday Night Live." West also touted the release using his popular social media presence.Īccording to Bakula, an album can only get to these types of numbers if it's also a good album that people want to hear. That's how it differentiates itself."īakula added the industry ratio for streaming is 1,500 streams equals that of one album sold economically. "There's a lot of services that can stream audio, but there's only place where you get this album and that's Tidal. "It's a really good number, and it's even more impressive that it's only in one place," said David Bakula, senior vice president of insight at Nielsen Music.
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