--- title: Adele Releases Album '25' on Streaming Services description: After seven months, Adele is finally releasing her album, '25,' on streaming services. canonical: https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-23T17:13:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:42.000Z og:title: Adele's '25' Album Is Finally Available For Streaming og:description: This is not a drill og:url: https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e53d2d5b6384bbd/6988992b0b72e367ac6e9ec3/adele-25-streaming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Adele Performs At The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adele's '25' Album Is Finally Available For Streaming twitter:description: This is not a drill twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e53d2d5b6384bbd/6988992b0b72e367ac6e9ec3/adele-25-streaming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is Not a Drill: Adele's _25_ Is Finally Available to Stream > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images) Michel Porro—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 23, 2016 5:13 PM UTC Seven months after [Adele](http://time.com/4366136/adele-tribute-orlando-shooting-victims-belgium-concert/) debuted her album, [_25_](http://time.com/4125035/adele-25-opening-sales/), it will be available to listeners on streaming platforms at 12:01 a.m. on Friday. Representatives for Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and Tidal confirmed the good news to [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7416349/adele-25-finally-headed-streaming-services), while Adele fans in New Zealand and Australia (where it’s already Friday) have already started listening. It appears that the singer has had a change of heart since releasing _25_ only for purchase in November. This was a conscious decision on her part, with Adele telling [_TIME_](http://time.com/4155586/adele-time-cover-story-interview-streaming/) that she felt streaming was “disposable.” “I don’t use streaming,” she said. “I buy my music. I download it, and I buy a physical \[copy\] just to make up for the fact that someone else somewhere isn’t. It’s a bit disposable, streaming,” she added. “I know that streaming music is the future, but it’s not the only way to consume music… I can’t pledge allegiance to something that I don’t know how I feel about yet.” This sentiment helped Adele sell 3.38 million copies in her first week on the charts, which might have sweetened her approach to streaming now. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/"},"headline":"This Is Not a Drill: Adele's 25 Is Finally Available to Stream","datePublished":"2016-06-23T17:13:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:42.000Z","description":"After seven long months","url":"https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","streaming","Adele"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e53d2d5b6384bbd/6988992b0b72e367ac6e9ec3/adele-25-streaming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e53d2d5b6384bbd/6988992b0b72e367ac6e9ec3/adele-25-streaming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Adele Performs At The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam","caption":"Adele Performs At The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam","creditText":"Michel Porro—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4379950/adele-25-streaming/","name":"This Is Not a Drill: Adele's 25 Is Finally Available to Stream"}}]}] ```