Fans of Taylor Swift can now stream most of her catalog on a different service than Spotify, which lost the pop star's business last year. T. Swift's catalog, minus 1989, is now available on Jay Z's new service TIDAL. The rap mogul purchased the streaming service for $56.2 million earlier this year.
According to Billboard, TIDAL is a bit more expensive than Spotify, with monthly subscription rates starting at $19.99 following a free week trial. The collection of tunes is not exclusive to TIDAL, though -- Swift's music is also available to stream on Rhapsody and Beats Music.
Hova's Project Panther Bidco secured TIDAL and its more popular international platform WiMP in January.
"Panther believes that the recent developments in the entertainment industry, with the migration to music and media streaming, offers great potential for increased entertainment consumption and an opportunity for artists to further promote their music," Jay wrote in a statement. "Panther's strategic ambition revolves around global expansion and up-scaling of Aspiro's platform, technology and services."
Swift's decision to pull her music from Spotify came last year after holding her fifth album, 1989, from the streaming music service. Like most of Swift's actions nowadays, the move made headlines and started a back-and-forth between the singer's camp and Spotify supporters.
"I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music," she told Yahoo. "And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."
Spotify co-founder Daniel Elk responded to Swift's comments, saying that the singer would have made $6 million if she released 1989 on the service.
Scott Borchetta, head of Big Machine Records, fired back, saying that Swift made a fraction of that number previously.
"The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores," Borchetta said. "Don't forget this is for the most successful artist in music today. What about the rest of the artists out there struggling to make a career? Over the last year, what Spotify has paid is the equivalent of less than 50,000 albums sold."
