Kanye West’s ‘Vultures 1’ album pulled from Apple Music amid distributor dispute
FUGA, the distributor for Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s album “Vultures 1” is in the process of removing the album from Apple Music and other streaming services, stating that the album had been uploaded despite the distributor previously declining to work with West on the rollout.
Ethan Millman for RollingStone:
FUGA, a music distributor owned by the Downtown Music Holdings, said on Thursday that while the company had declined an offer to work with West last year, another FUGA user apparently working with West had uploaded the album anyways.
“Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music, FUGA’s parent company, said in a statement. “On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.”
Music distributors work on behalf of recording artists to upload music onto streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. Distributors often have the discretion to remove music. Presumably West would need a new distributor to re-release the album assuming he can’t come to an agreement with FUGA.
MacDailyNews Take: Par for the Kayne West course.
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