It seems that little by little the main founders of Tidal with less fingers of forehead, They are starting to remove their albums from the different streaming music platforms. If the first was Kanye West, only publishing his new album on Tidal, now it is Jay Z, one of the co-founders of Tidal, who has just withdrawn the Blueprint trilogy from all music streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, Rhapsody, iTunes… but not from Pandora. Is there a mutual interest? A few weeks ago rumors began to circulate about the possible purchase of Tidal by Samsung, rumors that were finally denied. But it is does not mean that Tidal is not still for sale and that Pandora can get it.
It is not the first time nor will it be the last time an artist removes all or part of their content from a music streaming service. He did it before with the 99 problems album. Then the 1996 album followed and now the Blueprint trilogy has followed. Jay Z, just like Kanye West has never had nice words for music streaming services, in fact Jay Z composed a rap, which if it doesn't make sense in English, I don't bother to translate it into Spanish (it's easy to understand):
You bought nine iPhones, and Steve Jobs is rich. [Nike's] Phil Knight worth trillions, you still bought those kicks. Spotify is $ 9 million, they ain't say s ** t
It is curious that Jay Z's wife Beyonce has a great relationship with Apple. Three years ago he exclusively released his latest album, of which he managed to sell almost 1 million copies in the first three days. Plus, Beyonce was among the first to show off the Apple Watch Edition in the days leading up to launch.