KingSausage said:

feeluupp said:

Updated, Prince not only pulled his music from Spotify, but all other streaming sites as well except TIDAL which is owned by Jay-Z... Jay-Z and Prince most likely have an agreement in terms of being allowed to stream Prince's music.

It's on Rhapsody!

... For now... More media outlets on Twitter are saying Prince is removing his music from streaming sites one by one... This has nothing to do with remasters... He obvioulsy struck a deal with Jay-Z's TIDAL.

feeluupp said:

so I guess Prince likes and supports TIDAL.I can see why he likes it: the artists own a part of it and get more money.

Eye support in anything he does. He is obviously doing this 4 a reason. With the unveiling of his newest "Masterpiece" #HARDROCKLOVER then announcement on the same day removing his VAST catalog from streaming sites.

It's a new movement 4 his MEGA NPGMUSICPUBLISHING.

lwr001 said:

Pentacle said:

Prince doesn't have the power to do that, I'd say.

It must be WB, wanting to re-release everything in time with the announcement that Prince is up for the Nobel Prize.

Not remastered or expanded of course, who'd want that?

he does have the power to do that and just did..

No he doesn't. He made a request, and the services are honoring that request.

Don´t know why he goes through all this trouble all the time, he wasn´t very popular on spotify anyway. His most listened song is at 9 million, as people like Tina turner or tears for fears (who haven´t made music for a long time) are at 3x times that number.

Besides, a lot of his albums were already missing.

I don´t know what is wrong with this guy, i just don´t think he wants his music to be heard.

One of the worst websites ever created, fighting youtube, now fighting spotify.

Cd sales are down low, i can´t believe he makes that much money from it.

I understand a lot of people don´t even know who he is anymore.

Maybe he wants to be forgotten.

I saw his twitter account has 16K followers. thats nothing, really nothing.

Don´t want to be negative, i want him to be a big star, but he really does everything in his power to destroy all he build.

SoulAlive said:

so I guess Prince likes and supports TIDAL.I can see why he likes it: the artists own a part of it and get more money.

Prince has the hots for Jay Z's wife, that's the reason.

1contessa said:

SoulAlive said:

so I guess Prince likes and supports TIDAL.I can see why he likes it: the artists own a part of it and get more money.

Prince has the hots for Jay Z's wife, that's the reason.

SoulAlive said:

so I guess Prince likes and supports TIDAL.I can see why he likes it: the artists own a part of it and get more money.

my guess is it's less of an issue of "he likes" TIDAL, and more "he's getting a fatty check for promotion and a limited time exclusivity deal from TIDAL."

Interesting article about how much an artist would make from streaming music services. It would seem, not very much at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-musicians-make-spotify-itunes-youtube

"For example, Spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but Information Is Beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.001128 – this being what a signed artist receives after the label's share."

[Edited 7/2/15 0:21am]

SoulAlive said:

poor Prince when he realises how little sway he has over the world and the people don't join Tidal in droves.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye support in anything he does.

scary...people that don't think for themselves but just follow in anything one person does.

djThunderfunk said:

For all you digital only cloud lovers, there you go.

As for those of us who still collect physical albums, nobody is knocking on my door telling me to return them are they?

Prince did actually attempt to do that with bootleg CD's some years ago. Not literally knocking on doors but asking people to send them in.

Legally speaking I believe you don't 'own' the CD's but licence them. Not that it makes the slight bit of difference.

i enjoy streaming services and have used both spotify and deezer so this is bad news for me....and its bad news for his future legacy as he cuts himself off from his fanbase and younger future fans more and more....streaming music is the future...like it or not...so i hope this is a short term move as i really dont want to have to go to tidal in order to stream prince music..

What do we need streaming Prince for? Hete at the org, we have all his music on cd/other media right?

[Edited 7/2/15 2:35am]

He drops one his best new songs in over a decade, and then removes all his music from streaming sites.

He giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other

Seriously though, this is is a real pain. Yes, i own all his stuff on CD, but it's such a pain to convert onto digital and then transfer to phone (not to mention the memory it takes). That's not to mention all the people that don't have his stuff on record - i've introdcued lots of friends to him, by shaing songs.

Seriously disappointing.

djThunderfunk said:

For all you digital only cloud lovers, there you go.

As for those of us who still collect physical albums, nobody is knocking on my door telling me to return them are they?

Oh give him time, I'm sure he'll have the #PurpleMinioArmy knocking on doors demanding our physical copies of his music soon enough because how dare we think we have the right to listen to Prince's music that we already bought - for free?

TheEnglishGent said:

djThunderfunk said:

For all you digital only cloud lovers, there you go.

As for those of us who still collect physical albums, nobody is knocking on my door telling me to return them are they?

Prince did actually attempt to do that with bootleg CD's some years ago. Not literally knocking on doors but asking people to send them in.

He asked sure... But I had the choice to laugh and otherwise ignore his request. Try that with the streaming service and the music is still gone, no?

jaawwnn said:

Legally speaking I believe you don't 'own' the CD's but licence them. Not that it makes the slight bit of difference.

Wrong. I do own the CDs and with that ownership comes a license to listen to them as much as I want as long as I'm able.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

djThunderfunk said:

For all you digital only cloud lovers, there you go.

As for those of us who still collect physical albums, nobody is knocking on my door telling me to return them are they?

Oh give him time, I'm sure he'll have the #PurpleMinioArmy knocking on doors demanding our physical copies of his music soon enough because how dare we think we have the right to listen to Prince's music that we already bought - for free?

"From my cold dead hands..."

djThunderfunk said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Oh give him time, I'm sure he'll have the #PurpleMinioArmy knocking on doors demanding our physical copies of his music soon enough because how dare we think we have the right to listen to Prince's music that we already bought - for free?

"From my cold dead hands..."

I know that's right!

nextedition said:

Don´t know why he goes through all this trouble all the time, he wasn´t very popular on spotify anyway. His most listened song is at 9 million, as people like Tina turner or tears for fears (who haven´t made music for a long time) are at 3x times that number.

Besides, a lot of his albums were already missing.

I don´t know what is wrong with this guy, i just don´t think he wants his music to be heard.

One of the worst websites ever created, fighting youtube, now fighting spotify.

Cd sales are down low, i can´t believe he makes that much money from it.

I understand a lot of people don´t even know who he is anymore.

Maybe he wants to be forgotten.

I saw his twitter account has 16K followers. thats nothing, really nothing.

Don´t want to be negative, i want him to be a big star, but he really does everything in his power to destroy all he build.