Wild speculation on Jay Z "quietly" pulling his solo albums from apple music and spotify?

Posted by: Holmes on 10 April 2017

He's left them on Tidal which he owns 2/3 of and I'd guess it's part of the deal he did selling 1/3 to Sprint.

Putting his mouth where his money is. 

Did Prince doing the same in July 2015 have any effect?  or are streaming services becoming a different beast. 

If artists align themselves to a service, will lead to streaming services become more like Major record labels as different artists are 'signed'? 

Would that open the market to more services and / or bring the cost down?

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by jon h

<world takes no notice>

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by Mike-B

I suspect Spotify are absolutely devastated - not.   Does anyone actually listen to Jay Z albums ??   

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by james n
Mike-B posted:

 Does anyone actually listen to Jay Z albums ??   

Yes. 

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by Holmes
Mike-B posted:

Does anyone actually listen to Jay Z albums ??   

I don't really care, but I assume that to be able to buy Tidal, plenty of folk pay to...

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by Innocent Bystander

Never heard of Jay-Z before, but assuming from this that he or she is a 'pop' recording artist, and given that I understand at present charts rely heavily on play statistics from streaming sites, then an artist having control of a streaming site makes it open to them to seek to distort the charts in a variety of ways...

With apologies to the OP for the digression, this adds weight to the need to change the way the charts work, which quite apart from this is currently fundamentally wrong as it assumes streamed plays even multiple by the same people = popularity, but completely misses the number of plays a purchased copy might get. So Spotify, Tidal or other online streaming contributes to the charts with every play, whereas purchase only the one transaction to buy. Not that I have any interest whatsoever in the charts and what is in them, but I know they are a big thing in the media and in pop culture.

Posted on: 10 April 2017 by jon h

Modern beat combo artist mlud specialising in shouting. 

Posted on: 12 April 2017 by Kacper

Hi Mike, 

yes, I do sometimes, have some of his albums. I used to listen a lot of hip hop music in the past. For me Dre was always one of the best. In 2015 (I believe) he sold "beats by dr dre" to apple for 3 billion   dollars. Dre made on this deal approx 640 million dollars.

Posted on: 14 April 2017 by Emre

Maybe I should switch from tidal to Spotify,  better place without Him!