Mar 15, 2016 First Reasonable Doubt gets pulled, now The Blueprint gets pulled, everybody got a problem with Hov. Jay Z has apparently pulled his classic 2001 album The Blueprint from the streaming service Spotify without much justification. He does, of course, have this other competing service called TIDAL that you might have heard about, and chances are he’s trying to minimize the reason his fans would listen to Spotify instead of TIDAL. Hov has done this with other albums too, including his famous debut LP Reasonable Doubt. It’s an interesting gesture towards his fans; clearly he doesn’t want everyone to access his most popular albums on any other platform besides his own. Both Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint are available on TIDAL as of right now. Many people haven’t been responding well to the scattered exclusivity that some artists have been giving to certain streaming platforms. The move is usually a revenue maneuver – Taylor Swift famously pulled her music from Spotify and Apple Music because of low royalties – but many new artists understand that platforms like Spotify are less about revenue and more about letting their music be heard by the largest amount of people. The dominance of streaming companies and their spotty catalogs also brings another danger to the horizon. Young kids growing up and using these services may begin to take what they offer at face value, so if millions of kids are on Spotify and they don’t see Reasonable Doubt or Blueprint, they might not even know those albums exist. http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/03/jay-z-pulls-blueprint-from-spotify/?trackback=tsmclip
Mar 15, 2016 I'm slowly losing faith in Jay-Z... Thankfully I have the Blueprint album for 6 years now thanks to downloading so f--- Tidal.
