Sprint customers get first crack at streaming Jay Z's new album
Sprint subscribers and Tidal subscribers will get first crack at Jay Z's new album
Sprint customers who are rap fans are in for a treat. Starting on June 30th can stream Jay Z's 13th album, "4:44," for free. The album will be launched exclusively June 30th on Tidal, which means that new and existing Sprint customers can use their free six-month Tidal subscription to listen to the latest from the rapper. Those of you not subscribed to either Sprint or Tidal will be out of luck.
Tidal, which is now 33% owned by Sprint, said last year that it had 3 million subscribers with 1.35 million of them paying $19.99 a month for the high-fidelity version of the service. The regular version of Tidal costs $9.99 a month. While that figure is no doubt higher now after Sprint started offering it to subscribers in January, Tidal remains well behind the 50 million paid subscribers belonging to Spotify and the 27 million subscribed to Apple Music.
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