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Jay-Z takes to Twitter to damage control Tidal rollout
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TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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How many of that 770k are on free trials that won't ever pay for it though
TheAbsolution
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Probably free trials.
chicagocubsfan
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Live sports?
freenudemacusers
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we don't believe you, you need more people
Zeyphersan
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That's weird, because I'm anti-you
Phat Michael
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Is that equity value of youtube legit??
Out of 770K free subscribers, I can't wait to see how many will end up paying for it.
It's a flawed proposition based on artists' desires without audience's needs. If anything, Beats headphones showed that people don't care about sound fidelity that much. Listening to spotify or Tidal on most common headphones turns out to be exactly the same. And apparently very few people see the value in that so far.
It's a flawed proposition based on artists' desires without audience's needs. If anything, Beats headphones showed that people don't care about sound fidelity that much. Listening to spotify or Tidal on most common headphones turns out to be exactly the same. And apparently very few people see the value in that so far.
Wendel Clark
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770, 000 subs, had to fall back
terribletwo
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Why is tidal worse than any other music service?
Don't make his kind of money by accident
outunderthestars
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I care less about the nitrate and compression than I do the artist royalty rate. Sadly the kinds of artists I listen to aren't easily found on streaming services. 
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Well they've been up for less than a month, and the trial is a month. So they've actually made no money off subs yet.
AlteredForms
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Apple - $760 BILLION. Wow. The app store must be doing some mad business
Right!?
Only smear campaign I've seen so far is Tidal's.
Jay is so out-of-touch on this it's hilarious.
If this is the same price as Spotify premium why do people care if this becomes successful? I know the initial introduction was terrible. But when you look at everything this service offers in black and white compared to the competition the amount of vitriol seems irrational.
Austriacus
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Uh, might be google and not youtube.
Spotify premium is $10. Tidal is $20.
LyleLanley
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This is my favorite tweet.
CassidyIzABeast
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75% cut for all artist? Long live Tidal
RastaMentality
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There's a $10 option.
Byakuya769
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Hahahahahah. Equity values? Of course yours is lower--no one uses your service, but it's not meant to stay that way.
Embarrassing, Jay.
Embarrassing, Jay.
Mercury Fred
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Oh ffs, his acting like he's on some kind of humanitarian mission with this is disgusting. Go away forever and take your ratchet wife with you.
LyleLanley
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Does anyone really care about this stuff? I think most people just want cheap streaming music.
The best thing to come out of Tidal is the parody of their launch videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9_craOmIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9_craOmIU
Nothing really. It's your typical just-starting-out music streaming service. I'll actually say that Tidal does do one thing right out the gate that I wish Spotify did, and that's offer original and video content (although, it remains to be seen if this is something Tidal's will be able to keep up long-term, or if it's just happening because the service is new and they're firing on all cylinders right now). Its library doesn't match up to Spotify's immense catalog when it comes to just music, but that's about it. It's basically Beats.
The problem so far is the price, that it doesn't do anything notably better than the established players, and the absolutely disastrous way this thing has been marketed thus far.
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outunderthestars
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I want more information about this part in particular.
it's only 5% more than what Spotify pays out.
Lion Heart
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He must have meant Google.
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Lion Heart
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For only 67 cents a day, you can provide multiple money showers a day for a starving music artist.
NeOak
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#dead
outunderthestars
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Tidal starts at $10 the same price as Spotify Preimum. With more features(videos) and a higher percentage going towards artists.
LyleLanley
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All of these streaming services seem like such a terrible deal for artists.
Honestly there really isn't a great deal for artists anywhere unless you're a gigantic name. I think streaming has just made this fact much clearer to the average consumer.
outunderthestars
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Bandcamp is great for indies, and they offer streaming but you have to have actually bought the music from them first.
Poor Calvin HarrisSmear
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