If you want to listen to Jay Z, you had better subscribe to TIDAL. As fans of Hova have recently discovered, his iconic Blueprint album series has disappeared from a series of streaming services that are in direct competition with his.
According to Pitchfork, The Blueprint, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse and The Blueprint 3 no longer appear on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play or Amazon's music store. Spotify confirmed that Jay Z pulled the records from competing streaming services "a few months" ago.
"Jay Z's Blueprint albums have not been available on any streaming service except Tidal for a few months now. We hope he brings them back soon so that his millions of fans on Spotify can enjoy them again," a Spotify spokesperson said in a statement.
However, fans who are looking for some of the Blueprint series' biggest hits, including "Empire State of Mind," "03 Bonnie and Clyde" and "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" can still listen to them via Jay Z's best-of album The Hits Collection Volume One.
Furthermore, Jay Z's other hit albums, including his Kanye West collaboration Watch the Throne, The Black Album and Magna Carta Holy Grail remain available in wide release.
Jay Z's move of pulling the Blueprint series from non-TIDAL services should come as no surprise. Following his streaming service's relaunch in April 2015, he pulled his 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt from such services.
