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Can someone explain a motive for this? If Jay-Z owns the service, and the service pays royalties to artists streamed on it, is this just Jay-Z transferring some
by piker 8y ago
Can someone explain a motive for this? If Jay-Z owns the service, and the service pays royalties to artists streamed on it, is this just Jay-Z transferring some wealth to his wife and friend?
- adamnemecek 8y agoIt makes the service seem more popular. Like it's supposed to fuel your fear of missing out.
- evgen 8y agoTidal exists to be sold to some other media company or online service so that Jay-Z can finally make billionaire status. I am sure seeing Dr. Dre up there on those lists motivates him more than anything else in the world at the moment...
- rconti 8y agoAnd would this be merely a civil matter or potentially criminal?
- sjburt 8y agoThey don't pay a fixed price per stream; they just take some portion of revenue and pay the artists in proportion to the number of streams each artist had. So it's a way to give more money to Beyonce/Kanye and less to other artists.
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- fullshark 8y agoThe Beyonce and Kanye West exclusives were major selling points when Tidal launched, I think they also wanted other artists to do exclusives (Prince had an exclusive with them for a while).