Prince's music is coming to streaming services

After months of rumour, it has been confirmed Prince's music will become available to stream this weekend.

Songs like Purple Rain, Kiss and Little Red Corvette, currently only available on Tidal, will appear on Sunday, ahead of the Grammy Awards.

Spotify, the world's biggest streaming platform, told the BBC that all of Prince's albums from 1978 to 1996 would be part of the deal.

Napster also confirmed the news, as did one other site, talking off the record.

Apple Music has yet to comment.

Prince was the ninth-most successful recording artist of 2016, despite his most famous recordings being withheld from those services.

Prince, one of the biggest stars of the 1980s, was both a pioneer and a sceptic when it came to putting his music online.

In 2001 he began a monthly online subscription service, the NPG Music Club, that earned him a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2006.

Organisers said the star "forever altered the landscape of online musical distribution" and "reshaped the relationship between artist and fan".

A day later, he shut the website down.