Tidal loses Prince catalog exclusivity UPDATE: On Spotify Now!!

[Cadillac]

Playin "I wanna be your lover" on Spotify rn

 

[Rell Lauren]

They sold him out for a check. Qualifies as ain't shyt.

 

[HoLLaBaCK]

It's on Apple too

I feel bad this goes against his wishes...but to have his commercial records at my finger tips again

 

[Po pimp]

It's on Google Music also

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

Man if Im Prince every family member involved is getting cursed/haunted

You fight damn near a decade to get your shyt back from cac hands only for your fam to give it right back to em

Body hadn't even started decomposing and they were already in talks

can't even trust your own family these days

 

[No1]

Yeah, you guys all look like a$$holes celebrating this. It expressly goes against his wishes. I cannot believe that this was allowed. He didn't even fukk with his family like that. This is what happens when you don't have a will.

 

[puppetmaster]

It's kinda nice having convenient access to his work because it'll hopefully keep his myth/legend growing long after he passes even though I have copies of most of what's been released

Part of me does feel bad that this isn't what he wanted, like the day is coming where his music will end up sampled to death, remade by much less talented hacks and appearing in car ads etc

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

All these 'fans' of Prince who cant even buy his music

Laughable really

 

[Piff Perkins]

Unfortunate. Perhaps the worst thing is all the people I'm seeing on FB and other places saying "oh wow now I can stream Prince" as if it wasn't on Tidal for a year. (White) People either didn't know or automatically dismissed it because Tidal=Jay Z/Kanye.

 

[Teko]

Prince aint coming out the ground to kiss you for acting like a ho, and trying to superman his stupid want to litigate against his fans and scrub his music off the web. shyt isn't hard at all. Perhaps you should try to read what i wrote and maybe you would see that your issue is being addressed.

I know why he didn't like streaming, doesn't change the fact that you want to continue your legacy you need your music in the modern world to be accessible and easily so not locked away because you are scared you aren't getting what you used to get on a album.

He chose to make the music available via Tidal but there were clearly people praying that he dies so that they can make decisions that go against his principles and beliefs. It's very sad and arguing otherwise is retarded. Prince didn't want this to happen, so why celebrate his life by doing the exact opposite of what he wanted?

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Had no idea about any of this, was shocked when I saw his stuff on Apple Music today. I've had Tidal solely for his catalog ever since I bought my iPhone last year.

 

[Cat piss martini]

Prince was an idiot with his music, his family is smart to monetize his work and actually let people hear it

yo mama aint shyt.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Unfortunate. Perhaps the worst thing is all the people I'm seeing on FB and other places saying "oh wow now I can stream Prince" as if it wasn't on Tidal for a year. (White) People either didn't know or automatically dismissed it because Tidal=Jay Z/Kanye.

More people have Spotify than Tidal and Apple music combined.

Why would they pay another subscription just for one artist catalog?

 

[Piff Perkins]

More people have Spotify than Tidal and Apple music combined.

Why would they pay another subscription just for one artist catalog?

Fair point. Still there are a lot of ppl with no sub to any stream site, plus Tidal had some super cheap deals. Granted I don't use Tidal, I have Prince's stuff on vinyl or CD and ripped some to my computer.

 

[KnowledgeOfSelf17]

this could of possibly been avoided, if the family had sold all the rights to jay and the vault included