SHOWBUZZ : Kanye West album pirated over 500,000 times
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“Generally we don’t track music releases closely, so I’m not calling any records. However, I haven’t seen numbers this high before for a music release - not with Adele either.”
The newly released Kanye West Album titled The Life of Pablo has already been downloaded illegally over half a million times according to Torrent Freak.
The album which was exclusively made available on Jazy’s TIDAL received a lot of complaints from people who could not access via iTunes, Spotify and in CD form. Speaking to the BBC, Ernesto from Torrent Freak said:
“Generally we don’t track music releases closely, so I’m not calling any records. However, I haven’t seen numbers this high before for a music release - not with Adele either.”
However the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been trying to take down the illegally downloaded copies. So far they have issued almost 20 takedown requests to Google.
