Spotify users can no longer listen to Jay Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt, on the music streaming service.
However, Jay’s recently acquired streaming site, TIDAL, is offering Reasonable Doubt in high fidelity.
The Hip Hop mogul has stripped Spotify of his pristine project, but the rest of his catalog remains.
The move may spark a trend with artists affiliated with TIDAL. Those that are not currently under contract with a record label or belong to Roc Nation may have an easier time pulling their projects from the rival site.
TIDAL has already begun to offer exclusive content to its users. Madonna has premiered music on the site, Beyonce unveiled her ode to her husband, “Die With You,” over the weekend and Rihanna’s “American Oxygen” surfaced on TIDAL exclusively, as well.
Last week, Jay Z stopped by NYU alongside TIDAL executive Vania Schlogel to speak to students about the streaming site. He emphasized that his company is not positioning itself to rival Spotify. Rather, he says they both can be of value to consumers.
“We’re cool with, you know, they can be McDonald’s,” he said at the time. “We’ll be Shake Shack. We don’t have to be #1. We just want to be very specific and very great at what we do. We want people to come to TIDAL for a specific sound, a specific experience, and to know that there are going to be the greatest new artists in the world, the biggest artists, introducing the newest artists, collaborations and things you’ve never seen before. That’s what we’re going to do.”
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First song I played on Spotify after hearing the news…ETHER.
*specifically, I played the first three words from it over and over*
I have never paid for streaming music and I won’t pay for TIDAL either.
WTF does high fidelity mean?, either way as long as P2P sharing exists niggas wont invest money to stream music.
High fidelity is lostless quality music, like the CD’s. you have to have good earphones to hear a significant difference.
niggas aren’t their core audience jack ass
Reasonable Doubt is highly overrated. Why would I want to play an average album in Hi-Fi?
You are crazy. Do you just listen to music or just skim through it?
scum is right. frontloaded album.
Yeah but only in the US though.
Reasonable Doubt still available in EUROPE.
Oh no! How will all my white hipster friends discover Jay now?
I am not sure, if they have changed over from Spotify to Tidal yet.
you are a spaz
I’m sorry but I don’t care How many exclusives are on Tital. I’m not paying $20 a month for music.
There’s a 10$ offer.
And? Dame owns that anyway. Enough with all the free PR for Jay Z and his endlessly touring, liquidity poor fellow Baphomet dicksuckers. All this is about is attention for Jay Z as some kind of businessman supposedly up there with true business geniuses like those at Apple, Google etc.
Comparing Jay Z to them is like comparing a leftover McDonalds cheeseburger that’s been sitting in a paper bag on the street for a week with the most exclusive food in Europe. It aint on.
All the PR on the hiphop websites like allhiphop com and this one aint worth jack. Next we’ll be hearing about how many people are giving money to Tidal for the greedy bloodsuckers like Jay Z and Madonna but this is all the usual Carter bullshit.
After all camels do drop massive amounts of dung. Everyone I know is refusing to buy shit from these bloodsuckers. As somebody said can’t Jay Z just go and disappear off the face of the earth already?
More garbage from the Baphomet diksuckers. This and other articles like it on allhiphop com and all the gossip sites are just PR for Jay Z’s camel dung.
Most people aint checking for Tidal, they don’t want to give money to thirsty hoes like Jay Z and Madonna and other endlessly touring ‘artists’ who are big on bullshit and low on actual cash.
Jay Z can shove Tidal and everything else up his smelly ass where all the camel dung comes from. Oh yeah, Dame Dash owns Reasonable Doubt not Camel.
dame dash doesn’t own reasonable doubt jack ass, that’s jay’s only album that’s a three way split, jay owns the masters for the rest of his albums.