No, Kanye West Did Not Buy Spotify | TheRichest.com
Fans across the world were cheering on Thursday when news broke that Kanye West had purchase the massive streaming service Spotify. They hailed Ye's business acumen and lined up to get a new subscription to his musical collection.
And then, they checked the calendar.
April 1st is a day ripe for pranks and in the Internet age, fans have become more accustomed to over-the-top hijinks like strange flavors of potato chips or celebrity news so over the top that it can't possibly be true. However, for a man who is on the cusp of becoming the richest black man in history, the buying of Spotify didn't seem too far fetched.
Where did this rumor originate? It first popped up on a blog entitled Thissongissick (TSIS). The online resource for music news claimed:
“It’s official: As of today, the fashion and music mogul has just acquired the ever-popular audio streaming platform, Spotify,” wrote the website. “Something big like this isn’t unpredictable for West, but people are curious about his intentions for buying out Spotify.”
While the initial announcement seemed to have some teeth, it was the follow up that had people questioning it's veracity as the site then went on to proclaim that Ye would be deleting every one of the the platform's songs that aren't his. Get it? Because he's a big fan of his own stuff.
The blog even went on to quote "a source" who claimed that West was walking in to the office and declaring his intentions that morning. As they wrote, “Ye was just repeating ‘Excuse me, was you saying somethin? Uh uh, you can’t tell me nothin’,” the source told TMZ." No such article was found on TMZ either.
The next morning, fans waited with baited breath for Spotify to echo the announcement, but they didn't. In fact, April 2nd was another day at the office and all the songs that fans have long come to play on the service were still there.
Snopes officially labeled the story "false" and, even now days later, some people are still awaiting the billionaire's buyout of the musical library. With no such announcement from Spotify or it's CEO Daniel Ek, the news seems to be, at best, a prank that expired after the first of the month.
Sources: Snopes, Thissongissick
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