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Tidal Owner Jay Z Has Removed All of His Albums From Apple Music [Updated]

Michael Goff said:
What? Why should people do business if not to make more money?
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I'm all for doing business to make money (and trust me he has earned a lot of money) but this type of blockage of 95% of the streaming market only hits one: The customer
 
This is one of the more interesting threads .. in terms of polarizing reactions to Jay-Z

I somehow knew it would fall under "politics" status in no time :)

Not removing myself from debate either, as I enjoy healthy debate and don't necessarily see a difference of opinion as Inherently offensive

Fwiw if one were to distinguish top 5 and say top 5 recognizable rappers, I would agree. But not top5 period. And I would beg to say most people might agree but it's without a basis
 
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xDKP said:
Sad way these celebs do business just to make even more money. Don't let the door hit you on your way out Carter
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Why shouldn't he keep all the money ? It's his art and creativity ? Cut out the middle man and take the profit from his own music and work. Record labels and distributors have been stinging artists for years. He's not going to get anywhere fast but koudos for trying.
 
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I don't think people will switch to Tidal.. they'll just buy his albums like acquiring music many many years ago.
 
lostczech said:
No, I'm foolish enough to think he's broke... It's more a turn of phrase. This move will not turn Tidal's poor performance around, so I wonder what's the point? This sounds more like ego than a strategic business move
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It's a business venture. What's wrong with trying it out ? More power to him
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rizzo41999 said:
If 2pac were still alive, there would never have been a Jay-Z
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You and your crystal ball. You must show us how you do that.
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GQB said:
Wow... quality of music on Apple Music just increased expotentially!
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Yeah you can go back to listening to Steps and Bewitched now.
 
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triton100 said:
It's a business venture. What's wrong with trying **** out ? More power to him
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You and your crystal ball. You must show us how you do that ****
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Yeah you can go back to listening to Steps and Bewitched now.
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So are you here to troll or something? Easy to yell from the sidelines...
 
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DotCom2 said:
I could't agree with you more!
I don't want to RENT music because when would it ever stop?
I just prefer to own what I like.
However, I am a Amazon Prime subscriber in which I get their Prime Music catalog for free.
Life is good.
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You get 'some' of their music with prime, if you want the full prime music you have to pay for it.
 
Marshall73 said:
Yup, I have a very wide taste in music and his just errs on the side of meh. I don't rate any artist on wealth or who they are pumping. Just on their music.
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I'm glad to hear that. Anyone who rates someone's music by 'who they're pumping' or their wealth must be incredibly weak minded. I never would even have thought to have suggested such a thing. Interesting that you did. However to denegrade someone else's creativity and dismiss it so callously as 'take your crap music with you ' is rather childish
 
dmylrea said:
It's not like this happens daily that it would make one change how they acquire music. It hasn't happened to me yet, but if it did, there are plenty of other artist's music I can listen to. It's much more expensive and more "BS" to go through the trouble of purchasing CD's and ripping and syncing music that just deal with an occasional "Jay Z".
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Depends a lot on what you listen to. I've got a few CDs that are out of print and can't be found on iTunes or Amazon streaming (haven't searched Spotify because I don't have an account, but I'd be surprised to find them anywhere). Also have some that aren't available in my country's music store because, despite all my hopes and dreams for digital music, it's still impossible to buy music across borders as bits, but you can still ship atoms.

I've built enough of an emotional attachment to certain music that I don't want to have to pick and choose providers based on shifting relationships, or risk having it evaporate all together.
 
Maybe I just don't know the right people, but I don't know a single person who subscribes to Tidal. Not one. Meanwhile I know tons of people who are on Spotify or Apple Music, and in a few cases Google or Amazon (although most of them have Prime for other reasons and just get the music along with it). Pretty confident that 3 million subscriber figure is pure BS.
 
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thadoggfather said:
That first statement is WIDELY up for debate

And just because I don't know someone personally doesn't mean I can't hold an opinion of him/her. public figures (and more specifically celebrities, though they are still people of course) open themselves up to the opinions of the public, both positive and negative.

Small price for being "fabulously wealthy" and married to Beyoncé.

I don't care for someone devoted to the illuminati. All the minute details
Fall by the wayside for me when that reality sinks in
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It's not up for debate. It's fact. Know your musical history first before spouting here

You talk of things being up for debate and then mention jay z and the illuminati. Someone clearly does not deal in fact or reality.
 
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