--- title: Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé's Music from Tidal description: "We are rooting for Jay and Tidal to succeed" canonical: https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T15:23:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:26.169Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé from Tidal og:description: "We are rooting for Jay and Tidal to succeed" og:url: https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ba39d588f5997d/6988527055a85907bba8c466/ap475626552619-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Beyonce performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé from Tidal twitter:description: "We are rooting for Jay and Tidal to succeed" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ba39d588f5997d/6988527055a85907bba8c466/ap475626552619-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé's Music from Tidal > Sponsored content. 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Beyonce performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2015.John Shearer—Invision/AP by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Jun 1, 2015 3:23 PM UTC A [_Bloomberg_ feature](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-05-28/why-jay-z-s-tidal-streaming-music-service-has-been-a-disaster) last week raised concerns about Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal, and [whether Sony would allow the music of some of its most profitable artists to remain on it](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/29/its-not-just-beyonces-music-tidal-might-have-pull). “If Jay Z can’t come up with the cash for Sony,” the story warned, “he faces the possibility that Tidal might lose albums from some of its co-owners, most painfully Beyoncé, a Sony artist.” Sony has now quashed that rumor for the time being. “Jay Z is a friend and business associate for many years. I have always admired his business acumen, his entrepreneurship and his passion for music,” said Sony’s CEO Doug Morris in a statement. “All of our content, including Beyoncé, is available through the Tidal service, and we have announced no plans to remove our catalog from Tidal. Like all of our other partners, we are rooting for Jay and Tidal to succeed.” This also goes well beyond Beyoncé, a source [confirmed to _Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sony-music-ceo-no-plans-to-pull-beyonce-off-tidal-20150530). “Sony is regularly negotiating with partners,” the unnamed source said. “They took that point and obviously focused on one artist, which is inappropriate as well. This is a Sony Music issue and it’d be across Sony Music.” Since Tidal launched in late March the service has been marred with controversy, with prominent artists [slamming the service](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6531567/mumford-sons-slam-tidal) and Jay Z often [coming to its defense](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/26/jay-z-comments-tidal). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/01/sony-not-planning-pull-beyonce-tidal-after-all) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé's Music from Tidal ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/"},"headline":"Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé's Music from Tidal","datePublished":"2015-06-01T15:23:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:26.169Z","description":"\"We are rooting for Jay and Tidal to succeed\"","url":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Beyonce","Jay-z","Sony","tidal"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ba39d588f5997d/6988527055a85907bba8c466/ap475626552619-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ba39d588f5997d/6988527055a85907bba8c466/ap475626552619-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beyonce performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2015.","caption":"Beyonce performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2015.","creditText":"John Shearer—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/","name":"Sony Has No Plans to Pull Beyoncé's Music from Tidal"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Beyonce on Her Biggest Influence","description":"Beyonce speaks about how her mother and daughter have inspired her.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bwiqhP86/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-04-24T10:24:41.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bwiqhP86.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/","duration":"PT55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3903362/sony-beyonce-tidal/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```