TIDAL and The Prince Estate have confirmed plans to release new Prince music exclusively via the TIDAL streaming service. The new album will contain previously unreleased music sourced from Prince’s vast archive of Vault recordings. The album – expected to be released in 2019 – will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days and will be available for download seven days after its debut. A global physical release is planned following the exclusive digital premiere on TIDAL. The new release marks a continuation of Prince’s 2015 partnership with TIDAL, which resulted in the exclusive debut of HITnRUN Phase One and HITnRUN Phase Two albums via the streaming service.
As part of the agreement previously unresolved legal matters between The Prince Estate and TIDAL have been concluded.
The Prince Estate and TIDAL’s Jay-Z are working together on the song selection for the album. ‘Our only goal is to share Prince’s music with his fans as he wanted. After thoughtful and honest conversation with him, he chose TIDAL as his partner for HITnRUN Phase One and HITnRUN Phase Two, and we will continue to respect and honor Prince’s enduring legacy and wishes with this new collection,’ Jay-Z said.
Troy Carter, speaking on behalf of The Prince Estate, echoed those sentiments, noting ‘I’m very pleased this is resolved, and we get to honor the relationship between Prince and TIDAL with this album. We look forward to fans hearing the new music and experiencing the genius of Prince.’
The album partnership with TIDAL does not involve any of Prince’s music catalogue that is subject to prior agreements with Warner Brothers Records, Inc.
