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Britney Spears's 'Glory' is newest album for streaming service Apple Music

Spears will release a new album on Aug. 26. The streaming service Apple Music has become the home for works by various artists including Drake and Taylor Swift.

Britney Spears has announced she will release a new album later this month and that it will be available on Apple Music, the newest big acquisition for the streaming service.聽

Ms. Spears will release the album 鈥淕lory鈥� on Aug. 26. It will be her first album since the 2013 work 鈥淏ritney Jean.鈥澛�

Spears released a new song, 鈥淢ake Me鈥�,鈥� earlier this summer and the track debuted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. She released her first album, 鈥溾��Baby One More Time,鈥� in 1999.

She is currently performing in Las Vegas at Planet Hollywood and has served as a judge on the Fox TV competition 鈥淭he X Factor,鈥� among other work.

According to Spears鈥檚 Twitter account, the album 鈥淕lory鈥� will be available on the streaming service Apple Music when it debuts later this month.聽

While Spears didn鈥檛 say if the album will exclusively be available there, Spears鈥檚 work appearing on Apple Music is the newest material by a big name in music to show up there.聽

As various music streaming services compete, one aspect that has gotten attention is which services have had the exclusive rights to well-known artists鈥� new work. The music service Tidal has received attention for some of its exclusive deals, with music by artists such as Beyonce and Rihanna appearing there, though the length of time of the exclusivity has varied by singer.聽

Meanwhile, Apple Music has secured exclusivity deals with artists such as rapper Drake and Taylor Swift.聽

Interestingly, there were reports earlier this summer that Apple was looking into acquiring Tidal, with reporting that Apple was in talks to do so.聽

At the time, both Tidal and Apple did not comment on the matter and reported that an anonymous source had told reporter Natalie Jarvey that there was no truth to the reports.