Criticism of Spotify after its release, citing that all music on Spotify is available to both paid and free users. Coldplay previously delayed their album "Ghost Stories" from all streaming services for four months after CD, vinyl and download release, and did the same with its earlier album "Mylo Xyloto". Beyoncé's self-titled album was not available until 24 November 2014, nearly a year after its original release. Adele's "21" was not initially available on Spotify, as Adele wanted Spotify to make her album available to paid subscribers only, but not to free users. Spotify declined her offer to avoid creating separate catalogues for
Criticism of Spotify people stole my work than stream it from [Spotify]. They pay the artists virtually nothing. Literally pennies per month. Yet they make a killing. They've forced the sales way down in certain territories, which wouldn't be so bad if the bands actually got paid." Singer David Byrne of Talking Heads criticized streaming services such as Spotify in October 2013, writing: "If artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year." Byrne concluded his piece by admitting "I don't have an answer." In March 2014, American funk band Vulfpeck exposed