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Prince releases exclusive Spotify single, after removing catalogue from streaming services
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 31 July 2015
That Prince is a funny one, isn’t he? Always keeps you guessing. I mean, just a few weeks ago he was pulling all of his music off all the streaming services, and now he’s surprise releasing a new single exclusively on Spotify.
The track, titled ‘Stare’, appeared yesterday, with Spotify tweeting that it was “just for Spotify fans”. But does that mean all the rest of his music is available there too? Nope. Just that one track and a few stray odds and ends from compilations.
Spotify seem as confused as everyone else by this, telling fans who asked if the rest of his music would be returning to “listen hard” to this new single “and hope he brings the rest back soon”.
Who knows if it will work, but you can listen especially hard to ‘Stare’ here: