Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo was pirated more than 500,000 in one day, according to estimates by Torrent Freak and a story by the BBC.
The Chicago rapper-producer released the project Saturday (February 13) via TIDAL and kanyewest.com. Torrent Freak says that the project’s “limited availability angered many fans who refused to sign up for an expensive monthly subscription.”
Paying TIDAL users also had problems with getting the latest West album.
The buzz surrounding The Life Of Pablo and its limited availability led to an unusually high amount of piracy, according to Torrent Freak.
“Generally we don’t track music releases closely, so I’m not calling any records,” Ernesto from Torrent Freak said during an interview with the BBC. “However, I haven’t seen numbers this high before for a music release – not with Adele either.”
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What a dam shame . All Kanye had to do was release the album through every outlet available, maybe have a bonus track version for Tidal and that’s it. But no, he jaded everyone and made a mess. What a shame. I really like the album. This was just a wreck of a release.
Now Kanye will claim 50 million people pirated it.
Got my copy. Strong Album.
Who cares? This retarded, egositical, nut ball needs to be pirated. Besides his music haa been trash since his third album
It’s the racists. They don’t want Jay Z or Kanye to make any real money. Want to keep them down. Look at how no one pirates Taylor Swifts crap. Also, there was nothing wrong with Tidal and I got the album easily when it dropped…so the media is also to blame for promoting the myth that Tidal is broken and fledgling
taylors was available for sale… and not limited to one paid service.
WTF does Taylor Swift have to with this , they’re two completely different demographics, you dumb ass niggar.
You could used J.Cole who’s on RocNation label and sold over million and still in top 25 of 200 Billboard charts at year after the album dropped.
Why… cause he treats his fans with respect, doesn’t play stupid fucking with them.
Race? I ain’t paying for anyones shit.
“I WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE!” but first let me scream on all of you broke idiots out there! I’m the new Disney! I wear the freshest clothes and fuck the baddest bitches EVER! My new album just cured cancer! Did I mention that I was filthy rich? Don’t talk to me if you’re poor! I can sneeze with my eyes open! I know Anna Wintour got dammit! Hermes should hire me! Fuck everybody who isn’t me! Me! Me! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
In other words: Kendrick IS doing what Kanye THINKS he’s doing
That’s what he gets for limiting its release to fucking Tidal of all things, who the fuck is gonna pay to use that? You can be sure that there were plenty of fans waiting to pay for it on iTunes but now they don’t have an option to do that so they have to make a choice – pay and commit to a wack, overpriced service for the sake of 1 album or just download it for free? Well done Kanye, Jay and the rest of the clowns at Tidal for encouraging and promoting internet piracy.
Niggas pay 200 for jays 900 for a bottle of ace but wont pay 12.99 a month for music……..
Shut up. We won’t. And you probably didn’t either
sadly this correct. this will backfire and force people to use other methods besides tidal to obtain.
That’s officially Pirate Gold lol
Must owe Jayz a heap of money and can’t prostitute his wife anymore
this album is fire tho, I must admit
while most of yall on here hating on kanye and talking about what kendrick did and all that bullshit your really just mad cause everybody puts it with his shit lol we all know that if he released this album like a normal mf he wouldve had another number 1 and a platinum plaque but this man is a certified asshole so the world has to play by his rules lmao and yall hate it
these high ego motherfuckers think they can control us… till that day comes that i can buy an actual cd of any album i want, i wont stop pirating. The only reason TIDAL is popping right now is tlop, Kanye is actually forcing people to sign up to a streaming service to listen to his music, maybe somebody wants to save that 10 – 20 dollars to buy a cd every month you cornballs…