Spotify has taken action to at least inform their users of the situation, posting a note saying ” Prince’s publisher has asked all streaming services to remove his catalog. His back catalogue now cannot be played anywhere on the internet, except for the subscription-only service Tidal.
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Prince, however, is still using SoundCloud to distribute new music.
Prince music also is absent from new streaming service Apple Music, which launched Tuesday.
Reported by TechCrunch, Prince has pulled all his music from Spotify and Rdio.
In the US this year, Americans used streaming services to listen to 135 billion songs and music videos in the first 6 months of 2015, which was almost double the figure from the same time a year ago, according to the latest statistics from research group Nielsen. Although these discussions are apparently still in the early stages, it is thought that Facebook is looking to create something to rival Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Xbox Music and the like.
After a very public back and forth, Apple relented and Swift’s “1989” was available for listeners on the service’s launch day. The YouTube move leads me to wonder if there is simply a delay on getting his tracks off Google Music All Access. You can download and subscribe right here, too.
When it comes to streaming music, Apple’s new service has been the talk of the town this week – but a new report claims U.S. growth has almost doubled even before Cupertino sauntered onto the scene.
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Streaming – which offers on-demand, unlimited music – has been controversial because musicians believe that they are not sufficiently compensated. It plays the role of a music library, you can add an artists, albums and songs to your music collection by clicking on the small + button displayed next to their respective entries. “They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get raging when they can’t get it”, told the publication.
