Tidal Launches Direct-to-Artist Payments and User-Centric Royalties, Via $19.99 Hi-Fi Plus Tier Tidal has announced a number of new updates including a new free tier and enhanced paid subscription tiers, direct-to-artist payments, what it describes as “fan-centered royalties.” Most interesting are... Read More...
Jay-Z Finalizes $302 Million Deal to Sell Tidal Majority Ownership to Jack Dorsey’s Square A Square spokesperson has told Complex the deal did take place on Friday, but that it’s for “an aggregate consideration of $302 million,” and not $350 million as previously reported. The figure “... Read More...
Square, Inc. is buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service Square, Inc., the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. Square is paying $297... Read More...
Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL Music-Streaming Service The highly competitive streaming-audio industry could be starting the New Year with some consolidation, a new report suggests. Jack Dorsey — the billionaire CEO of Square and Twitter — is said to be interes... Read More...
Jay-Z releases catalog to Spotify in celebration of his 50th birthday Fans no longer need a TIDAL subscription to listen to Jay-Z’s back catalog online. In honor of his 50th birthday, the rapper has released his entire discography on Spotify, much of which he pulled from the stre... Read More...
The Prince Estate, Warner Bros. & Tidal announce new album “Originals” Prince will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping recording artist, and music business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he spent in the spotlight over his four-decade-long caree... Read More...
Tidal, Prince Estate Agree to Release New Prince Album Tidal and the Prince estate announced Friday that, after a lengthy legal battle, the streaming service will debut a new and unreleased Prince album. Due out in 2019, the album will feature a collection of previ... Read More...
Kanye Falls Out with Jay-Z’s Tidal Over His Money Kanye West, a key player in Jay Z's Tidal stable, has left the company over a money dispute and Tidal has threatened to sue him ... TMZ has learned. Sources connected to Tidal tell TMZ, Kanye has been unhappy w... Read More...
Jay-Z Removes (and Returns) Music from Streaming Services It seems that acclaimed rapper Jay Z had an odd weekend. He took down his catalog from both Apple Music and Spotify over the weekend. By Monday afternoon, though, he had reversed course on Apple Music and retur... Read More...
Spotify and Apple Emerge As Music Streaming Winners According to music tech insiders music streaming in general has seen strong growth in 2016 and as it seems this recent increase in subscribers has largely been isolated to two major leaders in the streaming war... Read More...