Apple may soon acquire Jay-Z's Tidal

Apple may soon be acquiring Tidal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Tidal is the subscription streaming-music service co-owned by Jay Z, Beyonce and Kanye West and Apple is in talks to acquire it. Both parties are yet to comment on it.

It will be interesting to see if JayZ will sell Tidal which has just 3 million subscribers when it was birthed with the idea to give Spotify's 30 million and Apple's 15 million subscriber streaming service a run for their money and allegations of discriminations on those platforms.

"Coloring Book," by Chance The Rapper, first streaming exclusive to debut at No. 8 on the Billboard top 200

Who says that streaming music is not a popular way of enjoying it and making sales and history? Well, guess again.

"Coloring Book," the new album by Chicago native Chance The Rapper, is the first to debut on the chart exclusively from streams. Songs from "Coloring Book" were streamed 57.3 million times in its first week, an equivalent of 38,000 traditional album sales according to Business Insider. Nearly all of those units were generated by streams of the albums tracks via Apple Music, equating to 57.3 million streams.

Drake’s album “Views” also got helped into the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart via streaming.  Kanye West’s recently released The Life of Pablo’s units, currently on its 7^th week on the chart,  are also almost entirely driven by streams.

“Coloring Book” is currently an Apple Music exclusive, but will be available on other streaming services on May 27th.

I do hope this good fortune in streaming will reach the shores of Nigeria so that our Nigerian artistes will smile to the banks too