Spotify has recently made an agreement with the Universal Music Group after recent reports claiming that streaming music generates more revenue. The deal allows the music company to hold new albums for its Premium subscribers with a period of two weeks.

TNW reported that a rumor circulates online claiming that Spotify restricts albums to its premier-tiers subscribers weeks ago. The music industry has been complaining for years now about the streaming company's free tier as they still completely offers the same access to its premium-tiers. Though users can name some limitations of features available to its non-subscribers but, that's it, nothing else.

So, here is the new agreement between Spotify and Universal Music Group, albums by the selected artists will only be available to the company's Premium subscribers. Paid customers will have ahead access to the album before the free-tier users or the ad-supported users can access them.

According to Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of Spotify explained the arc and stated that starting Tuesday, April 4, the Universal artists can now choose whether to release their new albums on premium only for two weeks. The new deal offers the Premium subscribers to explore the album earlier, while the singles are only available for all the company's listeners to enjoy, Consumerist has reported.

For those who are free subscribers or free-tier will have to wait for two weeks to access the album. The Universal Music artists include Kayne West, Beck, Katy Perry, and Lorde though the artists have an option to engage or not to the two-week exclusive window.

Ek, further stated that they knew not every album by various artists should be released the same way. Spotify is working hard with Universal Music Group to create a new, flexible release policy. Though it is still vague what will be the effect of the new deal to Spotify users but it is also unlikely users opt to join Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music as these companies doesn't have free-tier.

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