It’s official, I have finally changed to the Tidal app after months of convincing myself that I didn’t need it. Little did I know that if I wasn’t so busy telling myself no, I could have enjoyed music even sooner with Tidal.

Tidal is one of many music apps that features all new upcoming music from Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna and Kanye West immediately, unlike other music apps such as Apple Music. The app comes with offline mode to help users save their cellular data by simply clicking the download queue button, and the song is readily available without any wifi or cellular data.

One of my favorite things about Tidal is how involved artists are with the app. Artists such as Jay Z, create their own playlists that they share with Tidal users to reveal underground songs.

I didn’t want to get Tidal until Kanye West’s new album “The Life of Pablo” was released  Feb. 14. Being a huge fan of West, I was heavily anticipating that it would immediately pop up onto my Apple Music timeline and after waiting two days, it never showed up.

I was angered that half the people on my Twitter timeline were jamming out to his new songs, but yet I was paying $9.99 a month for an app that couldn’t even supply me with an album the day it released.

I wondered how people already illegally downloaded it so fast or whether my Apple Music was broken.

No, I wasn’t doing anything wrong; the only problem that I was facing was that West had only dropped his album in the Tidal app. I was angry, but not angry enough to cancel my subscription with Apple Music.

I had been an Apple Music member since December 2015 and when I first subscribed to it, I instantly fell in love with it. The song choices seemed to be infinite, I could make as many playlists as I wanted and best of all I could download any song, album or video as offline content so that I wouldn’t have to use my cellular data. It was a music lover’s dream come true.

That’s what I thought at least until I was persuaded to start a one month free trial on Tidal. Desperate to listen to West’s new album, I started my trial and that same day, cancelled my Apple Music subscription.

Everything that was featured on Apple Music was featured on Tidal but with the exception that artists would release new albums and songs immediately to Tidal.

Although I fell in love with Apple Music first, the next big thing came along, and I can now confess that I should have chosen Tidal from the start.

by MISSIE CARACUT