A-List Insider: Zayn Malik goes solo and Jay Z takes on Spotify with Tidal
In this week's A-List Insider:
Zayn Malik goes solo, Jay Z takes on Spotify with Tidal and Karrueche Tran breaks down over Chris Brown love child drama.
Zayn Malik a Naughty Boy
Just five days after quitting One Direction and telling the world that he just wants to be "a normal 22-year-old" Zayn Malik has already gone solo.
Music producer Naughty Boy has unveiled what appears to be a demo of the singer's first single as a solo artist. The La La La hitmaker, who has worked with the likes of Sam Smith, Emeli Sande and Rudimental, posted the snippet of I Won't Mind on Soundcloud on 30 March.
Confused? Well so are thousands of Directioners.
Tidal wave of support for Spotify rival
Meanwhile, Jay Z has recruited some of his famous friends to help him launch Tidal, a new streaming service to rival the likes of Spotify and Deezer.
The 45-year-old hip hop star launched the new venture at a star-studded New York event attended by the likes of Kanye West, Beyonce, Rihanna and Madonna. Before the big unveiling, they all showed their support by promoting it on social media with the hashtag #TidalForAll.
Tidal is the first streaming service to offer lossless, high definition, audio quality streaming of more than 25 million songs and 75,000 music videos. It also offers ready-made playlists for subscribers.
For $19.99 per month users will get to listen to music at a whopping 1411 kilobytes per second, basically the way the artists intended their music to be heard.
Karrueche Tran breaks down during interview
And finally Chris Brown's on-again-off-again girlfriend Karrueche Tran broke down during her highly-publicised interview with Fix My Life coach Iyanla Vanzant.
You may already know that the 26-year-old aspiring model split from the r'n'b star after finding out that he had allegedly fathered a now nine-month-old baby girl with long-time friend Nia Guzman, declaring on social media that she didn't want a "baby drama".
During the television special, which aired on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network on 28 March, the aspired model admitted that she felt "hurt and betrayed" by Brown, who repeatedly cheated on her throughout their five-year relationship.
Karrueche even revealed that Brown, 25, left her on Christmas Day to go and hang out with his ex-girlfriend Rihanna courtside at a basketball game, in full view of the world.
After dumping Chris, Karrueche now plans to focus on her acting career.
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