![]() ![]() ![]() Rich getting richer? Equity values… YouTube $390 billion. Tidal pays 75% royalty rate to all artists, writers and producers – not just the founding members on stage. It took Spotify nine years to be successful. We have been in business less than one month. People are going to swarm back to pirate sites in droves, sending traffic to torrent sites.” He’s taken the biggest artists and made them exclusive to Tidal. “I love Jay Z so much, but Tidal is expensive compared to other perfectly good streaming services. If you want your music to play at the push of a button, convenience is going to trump sound quality 100 percent of the time.” “ budget version of Pono… Historically, every time there’s been a new technological progression, there’s been a new convenience format … So the question is, is it possible for something to be more convenient than streaming? And the answer is obviously yes. Respect to everyone involved for doing the right thing for struggling artists – this kind of thing is so important, especially for indie music!” People have characterised Tidal negatively but I promise it’s 100% artist-friendly, and fan-friendly, since y’all have the option to pay the same rate as other streaming. Unless artists have a popular live show there aren’t a lot of income streams available. And I know some pretty popular musicians who still struggle to make ends meet. “Mad respect for Tidal! I literally know musicians who live in cars and storage spaces etc. And then they say it’s artist-owned, it’s owned by those rich, wealthy artists.” A band of our size shouldn’t be complaining. Bigger bands have other ways of making money, so I don’t think you can complain. “I think smaller bands should get paid more for it, too. ‘We’re all aware of the power of music!’ But I don’t think you are.” Alicia Keys made a speech that really should have been at the UN. Never mind fuckin’ royalties and the ‘power of music’. I was speaking to Chris the day after, and I said ‘Are you after a Nobel Peace Prize? Is that what you’re after?’ They were like, ‘We’re going to fuckin’ save the music business.’ And I’m just sitting there thinking, you might want to write a decent chorus for a fuckin’ start. “I think ultimately with the spiel they came out with, it was like, ‘Do these people think they’re the fuckin’ Avengers? They’re going to save the fuckin’. It’s the story that’s divided the world of music – but who’s sat where on the issue? Here’s everyone from Grimes to Tyler The Creator’s takes on Tidal… At the same time, rivals Spotify and Pandora, meanwhile, were charting at number 23 and seven respectively. And the public appetite for it doesn’t seem too promising for Jay Z and co, either in April, it was revealed that the Tidal app slipped out of the iPhone top 700 download chart in the US. People have claimed its a model that only favours mainstream acts – the ones least at threat by streaming in general – and that it’s little more than a vanity project. Mumford And Sons, Lily Allen and Noel Gallagher have all questioned its purpose and doubted whether it will ever achieve its goals. Since then, though, its found itself a target of constant criticism. Kanye West, Beyonce, Usher, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Coldplay, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Jack White and Arcade Fire all joined him for the bash in New York, each pledging to create a fairer system for musicians. When Jay Z launched Tidal at a star-studded event in March, it was with the aim of saving the music business: a vow to give artists a fair share of revenue than other streaming services such as Spotify. ![]()
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