History TIDAL was launched in 2014 and currently does not publish subscriber numbers. Estimates from industry sources range from 1 to 5 million. In January 2017 Sprint, the US mobile carrier, bought a 33% stake in the company with the remainder owned by Jay-Z and a variety of other successful music artists, making it the first mainly artist-owned streaming service in the world. In March 2021, the financial company Square Inc acquired a majority interest […]
Update 05/10/2021: At the end of August 2021, Primephonic was acquired by Apple and was closed down. Its services will be relaunched as part of Apple Music but no date has been set for the rollout. For further information on this go to Apple buys classical musical music streamer Primephonic. […]
Amazon’s first started selling digital music in 2008 and became the first music store to sell music with digital rights management (DRM) from many of the major record companies. Streaming started with a forerunner of Amazon Prime in 2014 and Amazon Music Unlimited, its full catalogue streaming service was launched in late 2016. […]
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