Britney Spears recently confirmed that she will be releasing her first new album in three years. Naturally, her fans have been waiting for a long time for her to drop a new album. It’s going to be released officially later this week but as it happens, Britney Spears’ new album titled Glory has been leaked online and is now being shared via online file sharing services.
It’s not uncommon for new albums to leak out ahead of official release and while downloading copyrighted content illegally is wrong, many argue that such leaks rarely have a major impact on album sales.
The same argument can be made for Spear’s ninth studio album and her first in three years. Her devoted fans will certainly be putting money down to pick up her latest work, and it’s quite normal for pirated copies of an album to circulate online once it has been officially released.
It really comes down to the consumer and how they decide to consume that content. They can decide to do the right thing and pay for it or they can choose to download it illegally, but obviously nobody is going to point them straight to a pirated copy.
Britney Spears’ new album Glory is going to be released on August 26th. She has already confirmed that the album is going to be released as an Apple Music exclusive.
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