The relentless stream(!) of TIDAL bashing continues, this time on Bloomberg Why JZ's TIIDAL has been a complete disaster.

This is a pretty hard hitting piece (as the title conveys), but the main issue here is about licensing agreements with the big three labels NOT being part of the TIDAL purchase deal! Two of the three have apparently agreed, but SONY appear to be haggling for more money, which has led to embarrassing stories such as this one Beyonce's music to be removed from TIDAL? which though was denied last night SONY says Beyonce's music will not be removed from TIDAL is a pretty good example of the different stratosphere that news about TIDAL has moved on to since the self-styled

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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man
rapper & his 'Avengers' mates purchased TIDAL.

Also, Jay Zeds retort to the article in the previous post would appear to ratchet up the 'tit-for-tat' wars with the Spotify CEO with Jay Z best album pulled from Spotify, now on TIDAL.

The upshot of all of this is worrying news for us, the subscribers. The business model is I'm afraid looking increasingly flawed and with the Apple Beats streaming service launch now only a few days away, things could get a lot worse (before they get better?)

Last edited by RussellP; 2015-05-31 10:51.
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