Kanye West’s desire to bet on himself has been his mindset for over 20 years. As fans begin to relive the early stages of Ye with his Jeen-Yuhs documentary, his newest endeavor has reportedly put plenty of money in his pocket.
In a since-deleted Instagram post he shared on Sunday (February 20), Ye boasted about the financial success of his newly launched stem player, the first release in his Yeezy Tech line.
“To earn the $2.2 million we made on the first day on the stem player the album would have had to stream 500 million times,” Ye captioned the post. “We did more revenue on stem player, without the album even being out, than we would have done with the album being out on streaming.”
According to Ye, the only way fans can hear Donda 2 is to purchase the stem player since he recently ended his relationship with Apple Music and declared the album wouldn’t be released on streaming platforms.
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The reason behind the stem player is because of Ye’s mission against streaming companies and labels in general. “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes,” Ye said about the move. “It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.”
The decision probably put Apple Music on his growing list of enemies over the years, including Pete Davidson, his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, label figureheads and more.
Stem player cost 200 dollars, they made 2.2 million, that means they only sold 11 000 units HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAH he’s definitely losing ? his fans because all he want do is make ridiculous money of them. But Americans are so stupid they actually support Kanye om this one. An album shouldn’t cost more than 15-20 dollars but he’s selling it for 200 dollar and Americans be like “I respect him for this, that’s great” you ppl are getting hustled so hard we’re laughing our ass of here in Europe.
That was the first day release, he released the stem player back in October beofre he announced Donda 2 will only be on his stem player.
You do realize that that is just the player and not the album yet, right? But i digress.
Btw, How much money did you make on your first day of the release on your own media player?
Stem player cost 200 dollars, they made 2.2 million, that means they only sold 11 000 units HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAH he’s definitely losing ? his fans because all he want do is make ridiculous money of them. But Americans are so stupid they actually support Kanye om this one. An album shouldn’t cost more than 15-20 dollars but he’s selling it for 200 dollar and Americans be like “I respect him for this, that’s great” you ppl are getting hustled so hard we’re laughing our ass of here in Europe.
Bruh you guys need to get off America’s Dick! You don’t have hip hop! The shit you have is trash! Europeans need to get their dental fixed before talking shit. Their teeth look like they been chewing on rocks! Be humming our songs because they don’t know our lingo!
No we dont entertain, we’re Bosses and entrepreneurs, who do you think runs Spotify, ITS SWEDEN muhahahahaha no sing for your Boss bitch! Muhahahahhahahaahhahahahahahaahahahhhahahah
That’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing more than the truth.
You know there are taxes and production costs? They probably sold like a 100k units in a day which is a huge success.
Kanye might be the most overrated artist of all time, trying to make his music like over priced designer clothes foh
So what, u gona give those dummies an award or something? Fkn shhtooopids
$2mill probably came from Kanye himself.
Nothing different from the old days of artists and their family buying up their CD’s at stores to boost sales figures
Yall lames can fall for this dumb ass gimmick, but aint nobody out here tryin to walk around with a weird ass stem player in their pockets just to play donda 2, Ye can put doodoo on a stick and yall Stans will buy it
Another wack album Donda 1 was garbage now this album gonna be garbage too stick to production duties ye for now on I miss no skip albums
Album won’t even drop when its supposed to on a 200 dollar player lmao.
Fake news, why can’t we get red of this clown?