New York: British singer Adele's much-anticipated new album 25 will not be available for streaming on major digital services such as Spotify and Apple Music, the New York Times reported.
The major digital services have been told that 25, which will release on Friday, will not be available for streaming, the newspaper reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.
Adele's representatives declined to comment on the report.
Apple Inc and Spotify were not immediately available for comment.
The hotly anticipated album is projected to sell over a million units in its debut week, helping the ailing record business in the final quarter of the year.
"So far the fourth quarter numbers have been pretty tough," said David Bakula, Nielsen Entertainment's senior vice president of industry insights.
Bakula noted that Taylor Swift's 1989, which was released last October and sold more than 3 million albums in roughly two months last year, helped 2014 close on a strong note.
"We're down about 20 per cent year-over-year because we are going up against that Taylor Swift record with nothing at this point, but once the Adele record comes out, I don't think there's anybody that doesn't doubt that this thing can sell very comparably, if not a little better on a week-over-week basis than Taylor Swift did last year," he said.
Some insiders are predicting 25 will sell 1.5 million units in its first week. And the album will easily become the top-selling release of 2015 (so far that title goes to 1989, which has sold 1.7 million units this year, and overall has moved 5.4 million albums).
25 is the follow-up to 2011's 21, which has sold 11.23 million albums in the United States. As the anticipation builds for Adele's new album, 21 and the singer's 2008's debut, 19, are currently No. 24 and 66 on Billboard's 200 albums chart, respectively.
In just three weeks, the single Hello has sold 2.2 million tracks.
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