Musiccosmos

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is launching the first wave of their anticipated Prince catalog digital releases today. It seems like with each year that passes since the pop legend’s untimely death , his absence grows only more pronounced as we slowly begin to realize the irreplaceable and unprecedented space he carved out within the music industry. We’ll still be untangling the impact of his legacy for years to come. This new release of songs comes after a long legal battle between Prince’s estate and various streaming platforms and record labels over the rights to distribute the icon’s posthumous releases. The Purple One was known to advocate for artists’ autonomy over their music and fought hard to keep his own work from being exploited online. He notoriously kept YouTube scrubbed of his live performances, and in 2015 he removed all of his music from streaming services except Jay-Z’s Tidal . Things took a turn after the pop auteur’s passing when Tidal...