Prince pulls music from Spotify

Prince’s Tidal page still has what looks to be his full catalog. Meanwhile, the Star Tribune noted that Prince is “super-protective of his music, videos, and even image”.

NEW YORK, U.S. – Pop icon Prince has opened a new chapter in his fraught relationship with the Internet as he suddenly pulled his music from most streaming services.

Of course Prince has been tweeting about the streaming world for a while now, notably retweeting a Daily Beast article which called Taylor Swift the new Prince.

The artist known as Prince, but previously known as a symbol, before that Prince, but born Prince Roger Nelson, has withdrawn his music from the majority of streaming music sites, ostensibly in a “I’m a greedy rich musician” Taylor Swift style play.

If you were powering up a bunch of your holiday weekend jams with Prince songs, you might want to check your playlists again – the all-mighty Purple One has removed his music from most streaming services.

“TIDAL hands over 75 percent of revenue to artists, higher than Apple Music’s 71.5 percent and Spotify’s 70 percent”, the finance and business news source said.

A very long time ago, Apple entered the digital-music space with iTunes and the iPod, which revolutionised a user’s music experience to a large extent. The YouTube move leads me to wonder if there is simply a delay on getting his tracks off Google Music All Access.

When you open the newly redesigned music player, you’re given the option to add some of your favorite artists and genres.

Streaming – which offers on-demand, unlimited music – has been controversial among many artists who believe that they are not sufficiently compensated. The singer pulled her music catalog from Spotify in November of 2014, right before the release of her latest album, 1989. “They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get mad when they can’t get it”, told the publication.