Jay Z pulls most of his music off Spotify in streaming battle with Tidal

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Jay Z has pulled most of his music off Spotify.

Nine of the rapper's 12 albums are no longer on the Swedish music streaming service, with only his first three records available plus two collaboration records with R. Kelly and a handful of other big singles.
Spotify told Newsbeat: "We can confirm that some of Jay Z's catalogue has been removed at the request of the artist."

Jay Z bought his own streaming service, Tidal, in 2015 for £45m.
But it only has around three million subscribers.

That compares to Spotify's 50 million paying subscribers and Apple Music's 20 million while Deezer, Google Play Music and Amazon Music still lag behind.

Other artists have withheld music from Spotify.
Taylor Swift removed her entire back catalogue in 2014 after a row over artist payments and Adele's last album, 25, was only available on CD for the first seven months of release.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...ic-off-spotify-in-streaming-battle-with-tidal
 
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