What Prince’s Death Means For Jay Z’s Tidal

The Prince Of Streaming: One legend’s death will boostanother’s upstart company. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images).

When Prince died suddenly late last month, millions mourned–and raced out to consume his work.

In the three days after news of his passing broke, Nielsen tracked 579,000 digital and physical album sales for Prince’s music, a 42,000% increase over the three days prior. The Purple One sold a total of 2.3 million songs during that time frame.

But many fans looking to stream Pri...