The rapper and owner of Tidal, Jay Z removed your Blueprint discs from most music services, including Apple Music and iTunes. The discs have also disappeared from Google Play, Rhapsody, Amazon, and Spotify, but are still available on Pandora, a radio service in streaming. The rapper's move looks like an attempt to invite users to subscribe to his own music service on streaming (wait seated).
Jay Z has launched various attacks on other services of music since Tidal launched. In fact, he even made a rap attacking Apple and other companies that said (translated into Spanish) «You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich. Phil Knights (from Nike) is worth billions and you still buy those shoes. Spotify is worth 9M, they don't tell us a shit«. In the same rap he assures that the attacks on Tidal have racist motives. But have you forgotten that he too is rich and still paying for his music?
On the other side of the scale is Beyoncé, Jay Z's wife, who in 2013 released her fifth and self-titled album exclusively on iTunes and did not do too badly, selling almost a million records in just three days. In addition, it is also known that Beyoncé likes apple products and that she has an 18-carat Apple Watch Edition. Ultimately, music is a business like any other. If Jay Z makes music he has to try to sell it by all means. Or, if you choose only one of these media, you must bet on a winning horse, such as iTunes, one of the most important digital music stores in the world. Failure to do so is throwing stones at your own roof.
Tidal is a music service in streaming which features content from some major artists, but does not stop attracting the attention of users. Recently a rumor circulated that Samsung wants to buy Tidal, which also shows that the music service in streaming the rapper is not going as well as he would like. We will see what happens in the future.