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Tidal is offering a holiday promo that will allow people to access the streaming service for free for 12 days, the company announced on Friday.

The offer comes after other streaming rivals, Apple Music and Spotify, launched their own promotions earlier this month.

Tidal’s deal will kick off on Christmas Day. People can sign up for the free trial until Jan. 5, 2018 on Tidal.com using their email address. Unlike Apple Music and Spotify trials, the Tidal promotion does not require users to plug in their credit card number to listen to music. The deals includes access to Tidal’s Hi-Fi and Premium service. Users will have 12 days to listen to content on Tidal through its mobile apps, web player and on its desktop version.

Besides access to music throughout the 12-day period, the streaming service will also release exclusive content, including original content series, every day. The platform will also premiere exclusive music videos and documentaries, a stab at Apple Music, which has been focusing on original content lately. Tidal will also host ticket giveaways throughout the 12 days.

The platform released the schedule of content it will launch for the promo (some dates may change):

  • Rap Radar: Nipsey Hussle – TIDAL.com/RapRadar – Monday (12/25) -With his highly anticipated Victory Lap album slated to drop in February, Nipsey Hussle sits down with Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller.

  • The Spot: Eddie Palmieri (Series Premiere) – TIDAL.com/TheSpot – Tuesday (12/26) - The monthly series focuses on the trajectory of iconic artists and features interviews at studios, nightclubs, and anywhere else where they made their name, performed a lot or recorded their most celebrated work. The first episode features Grammy Award-winning pianist, Eddie Palmieri.

  • Snoh Aalegra Tour Documentary – TIDAL.com/SnohAalegra – Friday (12/29) - The soulful singer's documentary is exclusively premiering on TIDAL and features behind-the-scenes footage from the Freudian North American tour with Daniel Caesar.

  • Song Exploder: QuestLove – TIDAL.com/SongExploder – Monday (1/1) - Frontman for the Grammy-Award winning and in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "The Roots", shares the story behind his successful career and discusses his creative process behind the bands' most coveted releases.

  • Fresh Cuts (Series Premiere) – TIDAL.com/FreshCuts – Tuesday (1/2) - A video series of short clips with artists at the barbershop/beauty salon, as they're interviewed while getting their haircut and discuss their life, career, style, etc.

  • The Group Chat Podcast (Series Premiere) – TIDAL.com/GroupChat – Wednesday (1/3) - Featuring Emily Oberg (Kith), Speedy Morman (Complex) and Jinx (Complex), the series will focus on highlighting, debating, and discovering subject matter including—but not limited to—hip hop music, pop culture and entertainment news, fashion, social media trends and events, and the latest hype.

  • Rough Draft (Series Premiere) – TIDAL.com/RoughDraft – Thursday (1/4) - Each episode of this new video series features an artist talking about the first song or rap they ever wrote (as kids) and then perform it. The first episode features the synth-pop project, Porches.

  • Rapsody "Where Flowers Bloom" Documentary – TIDAL.com/Rapsody – Friday (1/5) - This mini-doc focuses on the making of Rapsody's GRAMMY nominated album, Laila's Wisdom.

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