Is Universal hitting stop on exclusive music streaming?
Music streaming services including New York-based Tidal and Apple Music, have benefited from offering exclusive music and video to their subscribers, but that may get tougher to do going forward.
Universal Music, the Santa Monica, California-based music giant has reached a 'strategic commitment' to stop offering exclusives to a single music streamer, with the idea that it will be better for artists in the long run, because fans are alienated when they don't subscribe to the service with the...