![]() ![]() Thanks to a partnership with Sprint users were able to get free access to the album as a Sprint customer. ![]() This doesn’t necessarily mean a success for Jay though. We’ve seen it in the past with Frank Ocean’s Blonde and Kanye’s The Life of Pablo that streaming exclusives just boost piracy as fans aren’t going to change their preferred music streaming service for one album.ĭespite being pirated over a million times in its first 72 hours of release due to its exclusivity 4:44 has still gone platinum in less than a week. But for a big paycheck why does it matter to artists? Well without integrity I suppose it doesn’t. Most people already know by now that streaming exclusives are bullshit and screw over the fans. The album has been pirated millions of times after it was released only on Jay-Z’s own streaming service Tidal in collaboration with Sprint tel-co. Here’s “Apeshit,” the first video from the album, which has been widely available since Saturday.Jay-Z dropped his first album in 4 years last week and has been a phenomenal success, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons as a streaming exclusive on Tidal.Ī new Jay-Z album would normally be a time to celebrate but thanks to Jay’s new love for exclusives and company partnerships barely anyone is actually accessing his album legally. Now they’re putting those terms into action. Spotify agreed to keep some albums behind a temporary paywall in exchange for better royalty rates. Spotify’s two-week premium window shows you the effect of new label deals the service signed last year, in advance of its public offering.The fact that Jay-Z and Beyonce aren’t trying to keep this one locked up on Tidal isn’t a good sign for Tidal, which hasn’t put out a new subscriber number since 2016, when it said it had 3 million users.But that hasn’t panned out: With the exception of a few albums, like Beyonce’s “Lemonade,” almost everything on Tidal is available on Spotify and other services. The entire point of Tidal was that the streaming service would take on Spotify by offering exclusive music from artists like Jay-Z and other musicians who had equity stakes in the company.I’m assuming that means the album will also be available on other streaming services like Apple Music and YouTube Music, though I don’t see it on either. The rest of Spotify’s 170 million users will be able to listen in two weeks, once a “premium window” expires, says a Spotify PR rep. That exclusive is over: You can now listen to The Carters’ “Everything is Love” on Spotify if you are one of Spotify’s 75 million paid subscribers. Over the weekend, Jay-Z and Beyonce released a new album and said you would only be able to listen to it on Tidal, the streaming service co-owned by Jay-Z and Beyonce. ![]()
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