Prince Pulls His Music From Streaming Sites

Prince’s music remains on Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal, which aims to give more money directly back into the hands of artists.

In addition to Spotify, Apple Music is lacking Prince’s catalog. There too you can choose from genres of music to stream and play or just listen to what the radio is playing. You’ll have to actually go out and BUY his music in physical form. Records, for comment but the company didn’t respond.

Do Inquisitr readers think that Prince is a big enough name to draw subscribers away from Spotify and Apple?

‘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.’.

One of the most prominent skeptics of digital music, Prince has surprisingly been off the radar on the whole music streaming debate, until now.

The decision to side with Tidal isn’t entirely surprising considering the backlash against streaming services offering free tiers.

Tidal and Prince have been cozy of late, with the streaming service broadcasting his “Rally 4 Peace” concert.

For now, however, the artist’s songs are still streaming on Tidal, the music-subscription service spearheaded by Jay-Z that launched this spring. It’s perhaps not a coincidence that even as he was withdrawing from streaming services, he was posting a new track – Hardrocklover – to Soundcloud.