Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s newest release shows how Apple Music has tipped the streaming scale<article>
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<p>At 5:30 pm EDT on Saturday, the Tidal high-fidelity music streaming service was suddenly the center of attention. Just weeks after Kanye West dropped his
Ye album on
all streaming services—underscoring the dissolution of his once-exclusive contract with Tidal—Jay-Z and Beyoncé shocked the world with a surprise collaborative record titled
Everything is Love. And the only place you could get it was Tidal.</p><p>Somewhat surprisingly, that exclusivity didn’t last very long. While other high-profile albums have enjoyed Tidal exclusivity for weeks or, in the case of Beyoncé’s
Lemonade, years,
Everything is Love had a stint that lasted about 36 hours. By the time people were looking for some music to play on their Monday morning commute, Beyoncé’s and Jay-Z’s new record was available for streaming on <a href="
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/everything-is-love/1400124394" rel="nofollow">Apple Music[/url] and <a href="
https://open.spotify.com/album/1x7IPmap6ALHrqcyWGnFT2" rel="nofollow">Spotify Premium[/url] (available for free on Spotify on July 2) and the only thing exclusive to Tidal was an outtake track.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3282792/data-center-cloud/beyonce-jay-z-tidal-apple-music.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s newest release shows how Apple Music has tipped the streaming scale
