"Hello" Singer Adele's '25' Album to Be Released on Streaming Services Spotify and Apple Music

Adele’s 25 album is finally set to be available for streaming on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music, and the news was just confirmed by representatives for both services. Until now, only the singles “Hello,” “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” and “When We Were Young” have been able to be streamed.

Her albums 21 and 19 are already online, but 21 wasn’t available to stream immediately following it’s release either. According to Billboard, 25 will be available at midnight on June 23.

Adele has always had a tenuous relationship with streaming services and has in the past called it “a bit disposable.” “I know that streaming music is the future, but it’s not the only way to consume music,” Adele said to TIME Magazine in December 2015. “I can’t pledge allegiance to something that I don’t know how I feel about it yet.”

But not making 25 available to stream didn’t hurt it’s sales any, and the album broke the single-week sales record when it was released this past November. Nielson Music reported that it sold 3.38 million albums in the United States alone, breaking a previous record set by early 2000s boy band N’SYNC.

It is not yet confirmed as to whether 25 will be available on streaming service Tidal.

The singer is also gearing up for the US portion of her Adele Live 2016 World Tour after a run in Europe from February to June. The US portion of the tour is slated to begin on July 5. The North American run begins in Saint Paul at the Xcel Energy Center and will end in the middle of November. During the North American leg, Adele will perform a record six times in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as two nights in Philly and Boston.

The tour is also reported to be extremely expensive and a ticket to her show currently averages $911.

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