Prince pulls all his music from streaming services, save for Tidal

Although these discussions are apparently still in the early stages, it is thought that Facebook is looking to create something to rival Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Xbox Music and the like. Now, Apple wants to enhance the music craze to another level with the introduction of Apple Music, a new music streaming service for the masses.

As of July 1st, 2015, American singer-songwriter and entertainer Prince has chosen to remove his music from all online streaming services, except Jay-Z‘s enterprise, Tidal.

Prince has reportedly asked that all streaming services except Tidal remove his catalog from circulation.

TechCrunch reports that Google has not yet received such a request and will continue to stream his music.

“Whether or not these streaming services are exceptions to Prince’s ire or just slow to respond to his publisher’s request is not clear”, the site added.

Even the usually-grumpy Twitterati seemed to like Apple Music this week; we’ve got a round-up of some of the most positive reactions out there. I’ve been in meetings and they’ll tell you, Prince, you don’t understand, it’s dog-eat-dog out there. Last month, Prince tweeted a link to an article on the The Daily Beast that reported about how record labels co-own 20 percent of Spotify’s shares.

‘Essentially, streaming has offered labels the ability to pay themselves twice while reducing what is owed to artists from pennies on the dollar to fractions of pennies on the dollar.’. “All these computers and digital gadgets are no good”. You’ll still be able to purchase songs and albums through iTunes and play them through Apple Music and if you ever cancel your subscription those tracks which you’ve purchased will of course still be yours to keep.

NEW YORK, United States of America – 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.

Deezer sounds like it may be working on getting the music back, but in the meantime a slow disappearance of popular music from these services gradually devalues them and their “listen to anything” proposition.