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ificandream

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Thu Feb 15, 2024, 03:09 PM Feb 2024

Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign's 'Vultures 1' Album Removed From Apple Music (Billboard)

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 album has been removed from Apple Music after five days on the streaming service. Vultures 1 was taken down from Apple Music on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 15) without any explanation as to why.

The project was also wiped from iTunes and scrubbed from the Apple Music charts, where the Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti-assisted “CARNIVAL” had held the No. 1 slot on the Top 100: Global chart. However, “CARNIVAL” has since been added back as a single to Apple Music and YouTube Music.

Earlier on Thursday (Feb. 15), Billboard reported that the album’s distribution company FUGA — a business-to-business tech and distribution platform for labels — had plans to work with DSPs to take the project off streaming in its entirety.
“Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1,” a FUGA spokesperson said in a statement to Billboard. “Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so.”

The spokesperson continued: “On Friday, Feb. 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.”


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Read more: https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-album-removed-apple-music-1235608704/
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