Rapper Jay Z pulls blueprint albums from rival streaming services

Read Full Story: The rap mogul’s removal of all three of his Blueprint albums from other streaming services may be the company’s latest strategy to boost TIDAL‘s subscribers.

Jay Z removed The Blueprint, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse, and The Blueprint 3 from streaming service compet... Read Full Story:
Rapper Jay Z pulls blueprint albums from rival streaming services

CFO & COO of Jay Z’s TIDAL fired over steaming difficulties

TIDAL fires their CFO & COO over steaming difficulties 

TIDAL’s CFO, Chris Hart and COO, Nils Juell, were reportedly kicked to the curb which was exclusively confirmed to The Verge in a statement. “Tidal has terminated CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell,” TIDAL told The Verge.
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CFO & COO of Jay Z’s TIDAL fired over steaming difficulties

Jay Z"s music streaming service TIDAL gets sued for Copyright infringement and underpaid royalties

Jay Z’s music streaming service TIDAL gets sued for Copyright infringement and underpaid royalties

Jay Z‘s TIDAL has just become the latest one to fall victim to a lawsuit claiming the company has failed to make royalty payments to artists, with some like John Emanuele claiming ...
Jay Z"s music streaming service TIDAL gets sued for Copyright infringement and underpaid royalties

T.I. signs distribution deal with Jay Z"s Roc Nation, becomes latest co-owner of Tidal

T.I. performs onstage at Peach Drop 2016 at Underground Atlanta on Dec. 31, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
 T.I. has finally found a new home under Jay Z‘s wing. After leaving Columbia Records in 2015, the rapper has signed a distribution deal with Jay Z’s Roc Nation.
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T.I. signs distribution deal with Jay Z"s Roc Nation, becomes latest co-owner of Tidal

RIhanna Just Dropped her New Album Anti on Tidal

Rihanna has finally dropped her Album Anti, exclusively to Tidal….. which may have been prompted by the track list leak earlier.
After promoting her eighth studio album for ages now, the Barbados beauty finally released Anti tonight, however, if you’re not a Tidal subscriber, y...
RIhanna Just Dropped her New Album Anti on Tidal

Kim k’s husband Kanye West ready to bail on Tidal?

http://i2.wp.com/www.nollywoodfreaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/146.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 Apple Music’s head of content, Larry Jackson, posted a picture of Kanye West in his office claiming Yeezy was previewing music from his new album Swish and hinted they were working on something big together.
Kanye West‘s loyalty to Jay Z‘s Tidal was recently called into ...
Kim k’s husband Kanye West ready to bail on Tidal? 

Jay Z claims his music streaming business Tidal has hit 1 million subscribers

http://i2.wp.com/www.nollywoodfreaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1955.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 CEO Jay Z has announced music streaming service Tidal has broken the one million subscriber mark, despite being in the shadows of both Spotify and Apple Music.

Announcing the news on Twitter with a rare tweet, Jay Z, 45, also revealed that he will be throwing a special concert in his hometown ...
Jay Z claims his music streaming business Tidal has hit 1 million subscribers

CEO, Peter Tonstad, of Jay Z"s Tidal quits just after just 2 months on the job

 

 

More hard times for Tidal, as its latest CEO, Peter Tonstad, has left the company just after 2 months on the job. The high-definition music streaming site was purchased for $56 million back in March by hip-hop business mogul Jay Z and it became a private company. It has had its ups and downs but it’s still going on strong, well except for the CEO leaving the company.

MUST READ: Jay Z’s $56m music streaming service Tidal is not doing well

Peter Tonstad, was a former CEO of Tidal’s parent company Aspiro Group, as interim chief executive before he became the CEO of Tidal on April 17th 2015. He didn’t tell the public why he resigned, he just did.

Tidal released this statement:

“We can confirm interim CEO Peter Tonstad is no longer with the company.  We are thankful to Peter for stepping in as interim CEO and wish him the best for the future. Tidal will be transitioning to a permanent CEO as part of our strategic plan to create a leading platform, and current executives in New York and Oslo will continue to lead our rapidly developing innovation and content initiatives until our new CEO is in place.”

It remains to be seen whether a replacement is waiting in the wings with an even better understanding of the industry, but the news caps a tumultuous period for Tidal, after its starry relaunch press conference was widely seen as a misfire.

Source: CBS News

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CEO, Peter Tonstad, of Jay Z"s Tidal quits just after just 2 months on the job

Jay Z dings Google, YouTube, Spotify, others for criticizing Tidal

Jay Z performed at a private show at Terminal 5 in New York for Tidal subscribers, Jay launched into a blistering attack against those he said are criticizing his new streaming service, Tidal. He lashed out at Google, Youtube, Spotify and a host of others.

 

He claimed he was being depicted as ‘the bad guy’ because he’s going against the grain, before turning on Google and YouTube for underpaying artists, claiming they ‘pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get’. ‘You know n***as die for equal pay right?  You know when I work I ain’t your slave right?’ he rapped.

He also included Beat’s co-founder Jimmy Iovine in that list, who was previously accused of trying to lure high profile artists away from Tidal.

Then he even turned on people he called hypocrites, who dared to complain about Tidal’s high prices topping off Jay Z’s $520 million fortune, when they never complained about filling Steve Jobs’ or Phil Knight’s pockets when they were buying iPhones and Nikes.

‘Oh, n***as are skeptical ’cause they own shit – You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich, Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks,’ he said, before rounding on enemy number one: ‘Spotify is 9 billion they ain’t say sh*t ‘.

The B-sides show was only open to Tidal subscribers who compiled a playlist of the rappers lesser known tracks as part of a competition.

He has tried to defend his fledgling streaming service a number of times before. 

At the end of April, he said: ‘The iTunes Store wasn’t built in a day. It took Spotify 9 years to be successful.
We are here for the long haul. Please give us a chance to grow and get better.’

In its first month it flopped in the iTunes app store charts, despite a launch from big names. 

It is not known why the app has dropped so significantly but the price may be considered too high for some users.

Tidal currently has more than 25 million songs and 75,000 music videos in its library. It is billed as the first artist-owned platform for music and video and the service aims to compete directly with Spotify and Apple’s music service, headed by Dr Dre.

 

Users can pay either $9.95 a month for a standard streaming service or $19.99 for high quality streaming in the US.

 

Unlike rival Spotify, the service doesn’t have a free tier – meaning the musicians stand to make more money from it, but this also means it doesn’t play adverts.

Many users who downloaded it and are using it during the trial period may be looking to cancel their subscriptions or uninstall the app. 

You know I came in this game independent right?
Tidal, my own label, same difference
Oh, n—as is skeptical when it’s their own sh-t
You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich
Phil Knight is worth millions, you still bought them kicks
Spotify is nine million, they ain’t say sh-t
Lucy you got some splainin’ to do
The only one they hatin’ on looks the same as you
That’s cool, I know they tryin’ to bamboozle you
Spendin’ millions on me to tryin’ to confuse you
I had to talk to myself, Hov you should be used to it
It’s politics as usual

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"Tidal is doing just fine" Jay Z twitted, says his cousin moved to Nigeria to discover new talent

Jay Z has been forced to take to his Twitter account to defend Tidal.

In a series of Tweets on Twitter this evening, Jay Z address reports that his music streaming platform, Tidal, is a flop. He defended Tidal and asked people to give them time to succeed. Jay also tweeted that his cousin has just moved to Nigeria to discover new talent…He claimed some ‘haters’ are “spending millions on a smear campaign.”

The case here is that Tidal doesn’t seem to be doing well as it did when it was gearing up to re-launch at the end of last month, and it would seem that even exclusives from Rihanna, Madonna, and Beyonce have failed to get people talking. So, from there on, Tidal was considered a bit of a flop waiting to happen, but as Jay Z said, it takes time. See his tweets below…

Read Jay Z’s Tweets from bottom up…

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"Tidal is doing just fine" Jay Z twitted, says his cousin moved to Nigeria to discover new talent

TIDAL: Jay Z pulls his album from rival company, Spotify

TIDAL:  After paying $56million for Tidal, Jay Z over the weekend pulled his classic album, "Reasonable Doubt", from his rivals, Spotify. The rapper made this move in an effort to woo more customers to his new music streaming service.
Fans of the rapper were shocked to find that the album was n...
TIDAL: Jay Z pulls his album from rival company, Spotify