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 an apology on the Spotify blog by Ek, in which he wrote that "We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will – and will not – be used", along with details on what features the permissions would enable. An updated privacy policy, with "clearer language" focused on helping users, rather than lawyers, understand its contents, was rolled out in September 2015. In August 2015, "Billboard" reported that Spotify was among the streaming services influenced by "pay for play", in which labels pay for songs to be