Prince yanks music from all streaming services except Tidal

However, Tidal is the one place you can still find his old music.

Prince has decided to withdraw his entire back-catalogue from every music streaming service, making an exception for the Jay Z-owned Tidal.

However, his music remained up on the Jay Z fronted Tidal, as seen from his artist page on the service. Though the new update brought a few new features and improvements such as the long-awaited Apple Music and a revamped Music app, it also brings a few problems with it. Even though the iOS 8.4 is just a couple of days old, iDevice users have already started complaining about the battery drain issue. His legal team has fought tirelessly to keep his sound off YouTube.

In an effort to competitively price its new music streaming service in some of the world’s emerging markets, Apple is charging as little as $2 a month for an individual Apple Music account in select countries – 80% cheaper than the US.

“Apple Music matters because music is fundamental to the mobile phone experience,” Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffra, in a statement published by CNET. What is Spotify?  Spotify is a commercial online music streaming service launched in 2008. I think there should be an inherent value placed on art. How else am I supposed to teach my child how awesome Alphabet Street is and turn him into a lifelong Prince fan, when the CDs went to the charity shop a decade ago and it’s not on YouTube?

But Prince’s move comes barely a day after Apple launched a new streaming platform that has led a few holdouts to turn around.

A real triumph for artists’ rights would allow all musicians some control of what happens to their work.

Streaming – which offers on-demand, unlimited music – has been controversial because musicians believe that they are not sufficiently compensated.

Apple Music has not run into the same problems, winning over indie labels and Taylor Swift with the 180 U-turn on paying artists in the free trial period.

Prince’s actions point toward a possible future for monthly streaming services that could undermine the idea altogether.