Originally Posted by 3dit0r
Can't see that being a label decision, as was suggested above, unless, e.g., MQA are charging Tidal an extra fee per region, which Tidal passes on to the label, and then the label have to make a judgement call about whether to pay the extra to release MQA for a particular market, based on projected demand for the format for that artist, etc. With respect, if MQA are licensing in this way, I suggest their dream of becoming a de-facto standard is doomed from the outset.
Pure and total speculation... which also happens to be incorrect

There are many, many examples of Tidal, Spotify et al having certain tracks and albums available for particular countries only... and it's all dictated by the Labels... and not by Tidal or Spotify... and your speculation about MQA licensing is is again plain wrong

For the thirty-plus years I've been buying music, and frequenting record shops from NY to LA to London to Singapore... the Labels have always made what appear to be insane decisions about what Albums and Versions of those albums to release in those countries... and a similar "debate" has been happening for years about why e.g. a certain version of a Dylan / Beatles / Karajan album was only available in the US / UK / Germany / Japan

This debate won't go away anytime soon... and speculation as to the reasons behind it isn't going to help

Tidal have a lot of faults... but this MQA availability issue is not down to them or MQA Ltd... as it equally applies to FLAC Albums... and even selected tracks within albums that are otherwise available

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