TIDAL reportedly doubled its subscribers after Kanye West released The Life of Pablo exclusively to the streaming service, which is owned by Jay Z.
Jay Z made a recent move to help further boost the streaming service by removing his 2001 album, The Blueprint from TIDAL‘s rival streaming services, Spotify and Apple Music. The LP is also no longer available for purchase on iTunes. The two other Blueprint albums are also missing from the catalogues for all three platforms.
This comes a year after the Rap mogul pulled his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, from Spotify. This was prior to Apple Music’s establishment in June, so the LP has never appeared on the platform.
Several of Jay Z’s other projects remain on Spotify and Apple Music, including his Vol. I, II and III albums and his most recent output, 2013’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail.
TIDAL has faced multiple problems since Jay Z bought the service last year. It fired two CEOs in the year span and is facing a $5 million lawsuit from John Emanuele, an independent artist who claims the service does not properly compensate artists. There were also glitches with the rollouts for Rihanna’s ANTI, when the project leaked early, and Lil Wayne’s Free Weezy Album, when Birdman sued TIDAL for releasing the music without Cash Money Records’ permission.
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It’s okay. I still got Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint on CD.
That’s okay, I’ll just pirate them seeing as I already bought those albums once already. If Jay-Z is arrogant enough to think people are going to pay to rent old albums that can be bought on Amazon for a few pennies then he is fucking delusional.
Mfers on here just talk all kinds of stupid. This is chess you dummies. Tidal was bought to sell their music exclusively. Jay, B, kanye, rhianna and that’s just the roc. They just cut out the middle man. Why get 10 cent of a dollar when you can get the whole dollar. Yall dummies keep looking at subscribers. If they all drop this year that’s $60 mill. Tidal just paid itself off. Any extra is just that, extra.
All you niggas is bitch made. Jay Z is not the only artist to remove music from Spotify and won’t be the last. Why the fuck would he leave it on there when he has Tidal. Spotify has made over a billion dollars from other peoples work, but that’s ok cause it’s free. FOH.
so we’re bitch made because we already own the albums that jay is removing from his competitors?
good thing i downloaded that shit for free like 12 years ago, not that i bump that shit more than once a year anyway…
downloading music for free is da best! fuck anything else!
He pulled Blueprint 1-3 off Spotify OVER A MONTH AGO YALL LATE AF
FUCK JIGGA ND HIS TIDAL BULLSPIT!
Good. Less Jay Z material out there the better. Ain’t nobody give two fucks about Tidal, enjoy your old albums by your lonesome greedy morons.
Good thing idgaf about listening to Blueprint
Haha wow him and kangey west both pulled this crap to try and make money off tidal and i didnt notice either one of em wanna know why? Listened to blue print to death back in the day and kanye west release a single thing worth listening to in almost a decade so nothing lost there haha dudes just need to actualy work and get off this greedy bullshit
Lol what a gay move, Jay isn’t too smart. Real fans already have the physical copies and these hipster homo’s on tidal aren’t checking for his old shit no ways, they’re too busy listening to that MCHG trash and Kanyes trash