Raccoon
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Post by Raccoon on Mar 6, 2016 23:23:49 GMT -5
I wonder if Apple could ever out buy Tidal, join together and defeat Spotify
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Post by bat1990 on Mar 22, 2016 11:21:37 GMT -5
This is old but still worth sharing.
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Post by Live Your Life on Mar 29, 2016 12:23:32 GMT -5
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Post by Fancy on Mar 29, 2016 14:53:04 GMT -5
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Post by Live Your Life on Mar 30, 2016 22:32:06 GMT -5
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Post by Live Your Life on Mar 31, 2016 10:24:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:09:27 GMT -5
. Pull the plug already. Or keep the kills coming, Jay.
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Post by tommymonster44 on Apr 19, 2016 19:49:58 GMT -5
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 19, 2016 19:59:24 GMT -5
This whole Tidal drama keeps getting more and more entertaining. I don't blame fans for suing Tidal. It's a typical case of false advertising.
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Post by Caviar on Apr 19, 2016 20:17:47 GMT -5
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Apr 19, 2016 20:33:34 GMT -5
This is the same publicist that started the Jay-Z/Rihanna affair rumor and gleefully gave details after he was fired... take everything that comes out of his mouth with a mountain of salt.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 19, 2016 22:34:17 GMT -5
Most of those fans would not have paid for the album anyway nor do they pay for their music and they probably want their education, rent, and food completely paid for by someone else. They probably want free hookers, cocaine, and whiskey with their punitive damages. They are really trying it.
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Post by Glove Slap on Jul 1, 2016 16:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 0:58:15 GMT -5
Jigga man knows business. He knows striking it big with the next big country star will make more coin for him than finding that next big hip hop star. I wouldn't mind seeing Jay Z try his hand musically with elements of country hip hop himself. The introspective side of me lately has been enraptured with certain types of non boring Country music. ------------------------------ howlandechoes.com/2016/06/jay-z-roc-nation-nashville-country-music/Jay-Z’s Roc Nation has today expanded its ever-growing empire into, and this is not a typo, the world of country music, putting down roots in Nashville through a publishing partnership with Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG). The two companies have created Rhythm House, a music writing and publishing venture with veteran Nashville writer and producer Jesse Frasure. The move is a “natural extension of the relationship we started so many years ago,” Jay Brown, Roc Nation President said, with WMG and Roc Nation first inking a deal back in 2013. He continued, “There is nothing like working with the right individuals, at the right time, forming the right partnership.”
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Post by Caviar on Jul 2, 2016 2:23:51 GMT -5
Reports are saying Apple buying Tidal are false.
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Post by Zinc. on Jan 23, 2017 13:17:35 GMT -5
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 10, 2017 1:04:50 GMT -5
Tidal Owner Jay-Z Pulls Every Album from Spotify, Apple Music David Z. Morris Apr 08, 2017
All of Jay-Z’s solo albums have been removed from the Apple Music and Spotify streaming services. According to a statement made to the Verge by Spotify, the removal came “at the request of the artist.” Jay-Z’s solo work is also almost entirely absent from Amazon Music’s streaming catalog, with just four tracks from mixtapes offered. Jay-Z, a.k.a. Shawn Carter, is part owner of Tidal, a music streaming service that competes with Apple, Spotify, and Amazon’s services. Carter purchased Tidal's parent company in 2015 and re-launched the service in partnership with many other high-profile artists, who stated a desire to maintain control of, and a higher share of revenue from, their own work.
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Since then, Tidal’s expansion strategy has largely revolved around exclusive content, both new and old. It saw significant expansions of its user base when it offered exclusives from Carter’s wife Beyonce and longtime collaborator Kanye West. Many Tidal exclusives have been short-lived, though, and may not have converted many paying customers. In response, Apple Music has offered some exclusives of its own, including from R&B singer Frank Ocean. Spotify, however, has argued that this balkanization of content is harmful to music fans’ experience, and to the music industry overall. The removal of Jay-Z’s albums from competing services has happened incrementally, with prime-era Jay-Z albums including Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint series removed in 2015 and 2016.
While it’s probably good optics for an owner of a streaming service to remove his music from competing services, it’s interesting that it took this long, possibly thanks to licensing arrangements involving third parties.
And while it’s in line with Tidal's broader focus on exclusives, it seems unlikely that Carter’s move will dramatically boost Tidal’s appeal for subscribers. Some of the albums in question are over a decade old, and despite Jay-Z’s lasting impact on hip hop, his attention is now focused on his array of business ventures, and his currency among young music fans has waned significantly.Though it has not managed to substantially dent the subscription numbers of frontrunners in the streaming music industry, Carter has still turned Tidal into a very solid investment. In January, Sprint purchased a 33% stake in a deal that reportedly valued the company at $600 million, compared to its 2015 purchase price of $56 million.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Apr 10, 2017 9:48:40 GMT -5
He's cutting off his nose to spite his face. Nobody is going to subscribe to Tidal just to listen to Big Pimpin'. They'll just pirate it.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 11, 2017 2:53:31 GMT -5
He's cutting off his nose to spite his face. Nobody is going to subscribe to Tidal just to listen to Big Pimpin'. They'll just pirate it. Jay-Z is only relevant now because of Beyonce. I haven't paid attention to anything he released since the early 2000s.
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Post by bat1990 on Apr 13, 2017 22:12:27 GMT -5
He's cutting off his nose to spite his face. Nobody is going to subscribe to Tidal just to listen to Big Pimpin'. They'll just pirate it. Jay-Z is only relevant now because of Beyonce. I haven't paid attention to anything he released since the early 2000s. You have been so sassy all over Pulse lately and I love it!
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jul 2, 2017 13:54:02 GMT -5
Kanye West’s feud with JAY-Z intensifies as West splits from streaming service TidalThe feud between Kanye West and JAY-Z appears to have intensified, with West pulling all of his music from Tidal, the online streaming service set up in 2014 and which artists such as JAY-Z and Beyonce were stakeholders in. It has been claimed that West believe the company owes him money – $3 million (£2.3 million) – and that the company is now in breach of contract. Kanye’s lawyers reportedly sent a letter to the company over a month ago telling them that West never received a promised bonus for bringing in 1.5 million new subscribers with his album Saint deleted and that he has also not been reimbursed for music videos A back and forth took place but with no resolution, West’s lawyers declared the contract over. Kanye West's feud with JAY-Z intensifies as West splits from streaming service Tidal Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian (Picture: Getty Images) The pair have been friends for years but in October 2016 West publicly ranted about JAY-Z on stage, accusing his friend of not being in touch when wife Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. However the rapper hit back at Ye on his most recent album 4:44, rapping about how West had lost his principles and was ‘insane’ on the opening track Kill Jay Z. ‘You dropped outta school, you lost your principles / But you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe / But you got hurt because you did cool by Ye / You gave him 20 million without thinkin’/ He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f**k was he thinkin’? / “F**k wrong with everybody?” is what you sayin’/ But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane.’ Read more: metro.co.uk/2017/07/02/kanye-wests-feud-with-jay-z-intensifies-as-west-splits-from-streaming-service-tidal-6749601/#ixzz4lhaEhcDb
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Dec 15, 2017 4:25:52 GMT -5
Tidal reportedly lost $44 million in 2016 View image on Twitter View image on Twitter The FADER ✔ @thefader Tidal reportedly lost $44 million in 2016. www.thefader.com/2017/12/13/tidal-reportedly-lost-368-million-in-2016?utm_source=tftw … 9:08 AM - Dec 13, 2017 16 16 Replies 57 57 Retweets 97 97 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy -According to a report by Norwegian newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv, TIDAL lost $44 million before tax in 2016 and was aided by interest-free loans ("$69 million in 2015 and a further $36 million last year") from accounts by its parent company, located on the Cayman Islands. -After reviewing the accounts of TIDAL's parent company, Project Panther Bidco, it was found that TIDAL had made a loss of NOK$368 million, or $44 million dollars in 2016. -Engadget, a technology blog network, had also reported that "Tidal may only have enough cash left to last six months". -When reached out by Engadget, a spokesperson for Tidal responded on the reported $44 million loss (without flat-out denying it) with the following statement: "We have experienced negative stories about Tidal since its inception and we have done nothing but grow the business each year". The company says it expects to be profitable in 2018. -According to Jay-Z in September 2015, Tidal had reached its 1 million member mark but the newspaper claimed from internal payments to record labels that the actual number was closer to 350,000 members. -Around 6 months later, Jay-Z later claimed that Tidal had reached the 3 million member milestone, whereas the actual number was supposedly at about 850,000. -For the time being, Tidal has been internally circulating a figure of 1.2 million subscribers but has been keeping their head down on their user numbers from the media ever since.
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Post by shayonce on Dec 18, 2017 1:55:15 GMT -5
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