{"id":973853,"date":"2019-12-04T02:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=921807"},"modified":"2019-12-04T02:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:45:17","slug":"jay-z-releases-entire-catalogue-to-spotify-for-his-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/jay-z-releases-entire-catalogue-to-spotify-for-his-50th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Releases Entire Catalogue to Spotify for His 50th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_10227084f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Fans no long need a TIDAL subscription to listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jay-z\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jay-z\" data-tag=\"jay-z\">Jay-Z<\/a>\u2019s back catalogue online. In honor of his 50th birthday, the rapper has released his entire discography on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spotify\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spotify\" data-tag=\"spotify\">Spotify<\/a>, much of which he pulled from the streaming site back in April of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The release includes his most recent album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-jay-z-is-vulnerable-apologetic-and-still-dazzling-on-444-123022\/\">4:44<\/a>,<\/em> as well as&nbsp;<em>Watch the Throne, The Black<\/em> Album,<em> American Gangster&nbsp;<\/em>and more. Jay-Z originally took most of his catalogue off the site in 2017 ahead of the release of <em>4:44,&nbsp;<\/em>presumably to encourage fans to sign up for his service TIDAL. The announcement of the catalogue\u2019s return was made on Twitter by Spotify, and Jay-Z has yet to comment or make an announcement himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.7608695652174\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy birthday, Hov \ud83c\udf81<br \/>Welcome back to Spotify.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/exr5QGgwCK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/exr5QGgwCK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t7l4H5zn6E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/t7l4H5zn6E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spotify (@Spotify) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spotify\/status\/1202090253839937536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">December 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jay-Z released <em>4:44<\/em> in June 2017 via TIDAL. The album, executive produced by No I.D., featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-zs-444-a-track-by-track-guide-204939\/\">10 new tracks.<\/a>&nbsp;No I.D. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/444-producer-no-i-d-talks-pushing-jay-z-creating-500-ideas-253045\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that he and the rapper didn\u2019t discuss much before making the album. \u201cI saw that he, from our initial conversation, wanted to say more and wanted to say some things that he hadn\u2019t said,\u201d the producer said. \u201cPart of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center. This album is about Shawn Carter, Jay-Z, opening up, and me scoring that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-z-catalogue-spotify-birthday-921807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans no long need a TIDAL subscription to listen to Jay-Z\u2019s back catalogue online. In honor of his 50th birthday, the rapper has released his entire discography on Spotify, much of which he pulled from the streaming site back in April of 2017. The release includes his most recent album 4:44, as well as&nbsp;Watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:08:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}