Kanye West’s album is launching today — and unlike 2016’s The Life of Pablo this one will be available from Apple

Music and other platforms right away.

Given the trouble that Tidal, which had early exclusive rights to TLoP, is reportedly in, that’s not a huge surprise…

According to one recent report, Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming music service is currently months behind on its royalty

payments. In some cases, it has not made payments to record labels in more than six months.

Last year, Tidal supposedly lost $44 million before taxes, and is running out of money rapidly. Kanye reportedly

parted ways with the service last July over money issues.

From the perspective of wanting to make his album available to the widest number of customers possible, it makes

sense why Kanye would allow Apple Music and Spotify users access the album from day one.

Recently, Tim Cook announced that Apple Music has surpassed 50 million users. Spotify, meanwhile, has around 75

million paying customers and a massive 170 million monthly total active users. Tidal hasn’t revealed its exact

number of users, but last time figures were reported they were around about just 1.2 million.

We guess the writing was probably on the wall the moment we heard that Kanye bought his wife Kim Kardashian

Apple stock for Christmas!

TOPLINE Kanye West’s latest album, “Vultures 1,” disappeared from Apple Music and iTunes Thursday afternoon after distribution company FUGA told Billboard it would work to remove the album, which was released by a FUGA client on Saturday despite the company previously declining to release it.

West had already faced criticism and threats of legal action against “Vultures 1” because of allegations that he sampled songs from multiple artists without permission. The track “Good (Don’t Die)” was removed from Spotify on Wednesday after Donna Summer’s estate accused him of “copyright infringement” by sampling her 1977 track, “I Feel Love,” after being denied permission. Similarly, Ozzy Osbourne tweeted on Feb. 9 that West had used a sample of his 1983 performance of “Iron Man” in his new track, “Carnival,” after being denied permission. Osbourne—who said he denied West the sample because of his history of antisemitism—reportedly threatened legal action, and the track was reportedly released without the sample.