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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Samsung Seeks To Buy Sinking Tidal As Two More Executives Depart From The Struggling Company In The Face Of Mounting Lawsuits


Tidal's Madonna, DeadAmu5, Kanye West, Jay Z and J Cole

As Jay Z and Madonna's Tidal music streaming service falls, skidding towards bankruptcy, electronics giant Samsung, is reportedly interested in buying in the failed business. The Swedish company Aspiro was purchased and renamed Tidal. The price tag was $55,000,000, underwritten via loans and personal funds by recording artists Jay Z, Madonna, Rihanna, Kanye West, Micki Minaj, J. Cole and DeadAmu5, among others. It was launched as an equity business run by the aforementioned entertainers, but adopted the music streaming model pioneered by rival Spotify. 

Spotify is worth an estimated $3 billion and has 30 million subscribers (Apple, who is new to music streaming has 11,000,000 subscribers and Tidal has now has 1,000,000 but Tidal's users are mostly free accounts that are trial memberships). Tidal's owners immediately thought they would become billionaires. However, that's not how things worked out. Approximately 25 people fled Tidal, as the new owners have been engaging in criminal activity, such as falsifying sales, keeping two sets of accounting books, withholding royalty statements from recording artists who signed up the service in acts that constitute breach of contract, financial fraud, conversion and racketeering. 

This week it was announced, Tidal has been sued for doing the very thing the company said a year ago it wouldn't do - not pay artists. The band, The American Dollar, sued Tidal for $5 million American dollars. Oh, but it gets worse. Coincidentally (not really) yesterday Jay Z and company claimed it has fired Tidal's CFO Chris Haart and COO Nils Juell (trying to shift the blame to the two executives for Jay Z and Madonna's unlawful conduct - after blaming Harry Fox and prior to that, Universal, for all their self-induced problems). However, other reports indicate both men left Tidal, adding to the grand total of 25 people that already fled the lawbreaking company. Weeks prior Tidal's Senior Vice President, Zena Burns and Chief Information Officer, Vania Schlogel left.

Jay Z and company are seeking to offload Tidal. It is hemorrhaging millions of dollars and being slapped with lawsuits, wracking up massive legal fees. Despite these facts, Jay Z and his fellow Tidal owners want $100,000,000 for a company they bought for $55,000,000 a year ago and have run into the ground, while incurring serious additional debts. Tidal is also running a criminal credit card scam to boost revenues (Tidal Ripped Off Consumers Fraudulently Charging The Credit Cards Of Former Customers Who Closed Their Music Streaming Accounts).

Any entity that purchases Tidal is going to be faced with serious liabilities on a failed business. Tidal doesn't even have the rights to much of the music they are illegally streaming. Major labels also hate Tidal for botching their releases (and they seek to botch more releases to get them as Tidal exclusives). Vanity Fair magazine wrote, "On top of everything else, music industry executives aren't confident about Tidal, either. In a Billboard survey, 71 percent say they think Tidal will die out within a year. A more optimistic 17 percent gave Tidal one to two years before it folds." In short, they want Tidal gone.

In response to an item Jay Z and Madonna floated to the New York Post about Tidal and a potential sale, Samsung stated to the newspaper, "It is our policy to not comment on rumors or speculation."

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Jay Z Accused Of Threatening And Trying To Physically Attack A Journalist Who Asked Him About The Failure Of His Tidal Music Streaming Company


Jay-Z

The Crazy Days And Nights blog has accused violent, vicious, thieving rapper, Jay Z, who has previously committed murder, of threatening and trying to attack a journalist, who asked him about the state of his failed music streaming company Tidal. The Crazy Days And Nights blog stated Jay Z had to be restrained from physically attacking the journalist. Tidal has been a touchy subject for Jay Z, who has lashed out in the press as he helplessly watched the upstart company flounder and fail.

Not long after, the introduction of Apple Music's top of the line music streaming service crushed Tidal, sending the company tanking in absolute failure. It is deserved, as Tidal is a massive rip off of the music streaming website Spotify. When Tidal was launched, Spotify balked at the arrival of their rip off. Now they are unbothered by its collapse, having outlived their greedy clone that attempted to price gouge the public, who wasn't buying it...literally.

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Blind Items Revealed #8 – Mr. X

April 28, 2015 - Which A++ list rapper/mogul had to be restrained by his bodyguards after he threatened a reporter who asked him about his latest business venture’s so-so success? The reporter was probably planted by a rival music mogul, who is working on a similar venture with a much bigger company. Jay-Z/Dr. Dre


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Friday, August 7, 2015

Apple Music Streaming Crushes Tidal With Massive Sales And 11 Million Members


Drake helping to launch Apple Music streaming service

Apple Music launched on June 30, 2015 to impressive results. 11 million people signed up for Apple Music's 3-month trial membership. 2 million people signed up for Apple Music's $14.99 family plan. The Apple App store also saw record revenues, generating $1.7 billion dollars in sales.


Jay Z co-owns Tidal

 This successful roll out has crushed Apple's competition, Tidal, which never truly got off the ground as it is an expensive rip off of Spotify, bringing nothing new to the marketplace. Employees continue to flee Tidal, leaving the beleaguered company hemorrhaging money and struggling to stay open, failing to obtain any relevancy.  

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Tidal Loses Three More Executives


Jay Z
The music streaming service "Tidal" founded by industry copyright infringers Jay Z (Shawn Carter) and Madonna, suffered another blow as two more executives left the failing company (Zena Burns, Jeff Geisler and Jennifer Justice). Thus far nearly three dozen employees have fled Tidal, under a wave of massive public criticism and financial losses.

Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Deadmau5, Kanye West, Jay Z and J Cole (also known as Hollywood's self-professed "Illuminati")
Tidal is hemorrhaging money and failing to compete with Spotify, the company whose business model and software they ripped off to create their music streaming company. The launch of Apple Music streaming became the nail in the coffin for Tidal and a bitter Jay Z began lashing out more than ever.

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Another Top Executive Leaves Jay Z And Madonna's Failing Tidal


Peter Tonstad and Jay Z
After two short months on the job,  top executive of Jay Z and Madonna's failed Tidal music streaming company has left his post, after replacing Andy Chen, who also bailed on the troubled outfit. Peter Tonstad abandoned the bogus company, adding to the stream of employees that have made a run for the exit as it crashes and burns.


Drake helping to launch rival Apple Music streaming service, which has received a much better reception from the public than Tidal

A month ago 11 Tidal executives, including the company's chief operating officer, quit and ran from the beleaguered venture social networking and the press loudly labeled a flop. Jay Z and Madonna's attempt to rip off Spotify's business has failed. The market has become even more difficult for Tidal, with Apple Music's take on music streaming, pairing it with other items.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Mainstream Publications Rip Jay Z And Tidal Streaming Service To Shreds Implying He Is Suffering From Delusions Of Grandeur


Jay-Z

Mainstream business newspaper Bloomberg has published a scathing, sarcastic and cutting piece on rapper Jay Z and his delusions of grandeur via his and Madonna's online music streaming service Tidal. The company has been branded a "failure" "fiasco" and "bad investment" by real business professionals. Bloomberg joins Complex, Rolling Stone and a host of other mainstream publications, who have been highly critical of subpar Tidal, which is a greedy money grab by Jay Z and company, who ripped off the music streaming service Spotify.

When a terrible public backlash ensued and their $55,000,000 investment in Tidal began going up in smoke, money that came courtesy of loans, Jay Z began to publicly lash out. He even pulled the race card, invoking slavery claims, when  he routinely steals preexisting copyrights from black singers, songwriters, producers, musicians, authors and filmmakers, for undue and illegal enrichment. Twitter also slammed Jay Z's slavery claims, publicly noting in tweets that Tidal has no black employees.

The article sarcastically makes reference to Jay Z's delusions of grandeur, "Jay Z also aspires to be one of the world’s great businessmen. 'I affiliate with Billy Gates, that’s my peer,' he once rapped. And: 'You looking at the black Warren Buffett.'" The fact of the matter is Jay Z is out of his mind to think he is in the same class as Gates or Buffett, two billionaires, who are intelligent and well educated.

Jay Z is a mentally deficient Hollywood thief, who has racked up many copyright infringement and trademark infringement lawsuits, filed by people domestically and all over the world, for criminally stealing people's preexisting intellectual property, which all comprise his career and the contents of his bank accounts.

Jay Z is an unintelligent fraud, who relies on ripping off people to get money, which is criminal. He is not a legitimate achiever. Everything he has is stolen from others. He further lacks the mental capacity to be a great businessman, as evidenced by his speech (and that of his wife Beyonce) and their appalling track record for theft. Publicists and lawyers prepare items for the couple to recite, but catch them flatfooted asking either a serious and intelligent question and you will get a dumb answer or them reciting something someone else wrote or stated (there exists evidence of them having done this). 

The ironic thing about the thief Jay Z is you steal from him (or even bootleg his music) and he will stab you (as he did to Lance "Un" Rivera) or have someone inflict grievous bodily injury to you (as his thuggish bodyguards have done to people in America, with one incident caught on camera). Real businessmen do not behave in this ignorant manner. Thugs and criminals do. Jay Z calls himself a genius, when he is illiterate and couldn't obtain a high score on a properly administered aptitude test (that his publicist or lawyer didn't give him all the answers to in advance).

Everything about Jay Z has been one big scam, from his marriage to Beyonce (which her uncle and others in the industry are stating is a fake and business arrangement) to his record sales (he has fraudulently added 30,000,000 copies to his album sales tally and ran Soundscan scams he was caught red-handed perpetrating) to the value of Rockafella (he claimed it was worth $125,000,000 when business magazines stated it is worth $25,000,000).

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That’s Business, Man: Why Jay Z’s Tidal Is a Complete Disaster

Like many rappers, Jay Z writes songs that have a paranoid streak. He lashes out against conservative cable news anchors, overzealous cops, lazy music critics, and less talented lyricists, all of whom, he insists, are out to get him because he’s famous. On May 16, Jay Z uncorked one of these bilious anthems, Say Hello, from his 10th studio album, American Gangster, at an exclusive performance for people who’ve signed up for Tidal, his subscription-only streaming-music service. Stalking the stage at New York’s Terminal 5, Jay Z addressed critics of his new venture, who have savaged it as tone-deaf, unimpressive, and—perhaps most wounding for a celebrity who famously boasted “I’m a business, man”—a lousy investment...

Jay Z unveiled Tidal at a press conference in late March, flanked by 15 of the biggest acts in the music business, including his wife, Beyoncé, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Jack White, and Kanye West, all of whom were introduced as equity shareholders. Many seemed awkward and unprepared. Another owner, Alicia Keys, quoted Nietzsche and gushed about Tidal’s cultural significance: “We’re gathered?…?with one voice, in unity, in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.” There was a lot of utopian rhetoric about restoring the value of music in the digital age. Less time was spent on new features, technology, or other reasons for listeners to try—and pay for—a Tidal subscription.

The backlash was immediate. Tidal’s detractors weren’t just the predictably vexatious music bloggers, who described the service as little more than a vehicle for musical plutocrats to line their pockets. The haters also included some of Jay Z’s peers. “They totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and then having them all complain about not being paid,” said Ben Gibbard, lead singer of the indie rock group Death Cab for Cutie. The habitually caustic Noel Gallagher of Oasis told Rolling Stone, “Do these people think they are the f---in’ Avengers? They are going to save the f---in’ [world]?” In late May Tidal hovered at No.?9 on the iTunes list of top-grossing music apps, trailing Slacker Radio...


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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Jay Z And Madonna’s Tidal Officially Branded A Bad Business Move And Flop By The Mainstream Press


Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Dead5Amu, Kanye West, Jay Z and J Cole (also known as Hollywood's self-professed "Illuminati")

 Rapper Jay Z publicly complained over a "smear campaign" by Spotify and Apple's respective music streaming services against his upstart Tidal (which I call Tidy Bowl after the toilet cleaner). Many online have noted Tidal is a blatant, substandard rip off of Spotify. Therefore, why would Spotify like Jay Z and company for stealing their intellectual property and ripping off their business, in trying to take bread off their table.

Either Jay Z and Madonna are crazy or bonafide idiots or both. If you rip someone off, of course they're going to hand your butt to you. What dream world are you detached, delusional, greedy Tidal stars living in where people thank you for ripping them off and stealing from their business. 

Many news outlets are stating Tidal is a massive failure and fiasco (see "story source" article below summarizing news reports on Tidal). Delusional Jay Z is insisting otherwise, conceding the business is not a hit, but allegedly has "67,000 subs." He must mean 67,000 sub sandwiches.

Jay Z, a man known in the industry for falsifying record sales and running a Soundscan sales scam he was caught red-handed perpetrating in violation of fraud laws, is clearly lying again. If 67,000 people had subscribed to Tidal at $9.99 to $19.99 each, the CEO wouldn't have run for the exit with many employees leaving with him nor would Jay Z have taken to Twitter posting prepared statements from his lawyer about the crumbling company. As your ridiculous lyric that has become a meme online states, "We don't believe you. You need more people."

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Jay-Z’s Historical Tidal Disaster Continues: Taylor Swift, Rihanna, And Beyoncé Aren’t Helping

Jay-Z apparently thought his new Tidal service would expand his career and make him not only a respectable musical talent, but a greatly-admired businessman. Needless to say, the service has become a historical disaster and one that many think could be one of the biggest business venture mistakes ever. The Daily Beast describes what many see as the reason for Tidal’s epic failure.

“The idea behind Tidal is that these higher subscription fees will lead to greater royalties for the artists—so it’s pretty hard to understand how this endeavor is ‘for fans,’ as Jay Z claims. Tidal’s logic seems to be that fans’ money will now go directly into the pockets of the artists, but if the monthly premium is more than competing music streaming sites like Spotify and Apple’s Beats Music, how does this benefit the fans, and not just pad the pockets of these equity-blessed entrepreneurs?”

Mashable describes Jay-Z’s Tidal as a “train wreck.”

“Fast forward a month, and the app is a tanking embarrassment. According to App Annie rankings watched eagerly by developers, Tidal fell out of the top 500 most downloaded apps in the U.S. on April 18. Three days later, it had dropped to No. 870. A rumor began the next day that Beyonce and Jay Z would launch an album exclusively on the service; that only got Tidal back up to No. 664 in the charts.”

Jay-Z is trying to calm down the horrible publicity Tidal has been receiving. According to Vibe, the megastar says Tidal is doing just fine.

“Taking to Twitter with #TidalFacts, a ‘stream of consciousness,’ Jay Z set out to clear the air about the Tidal wave. Assuring users that the service is ‘doing just fine,’ Hov shared that the service has over 700,000 subscribers, and that it aims to be around ‘for the long haul,’ by providing artists with higher royalty rates as well as other forms of entertainment for users. He also shared the company’s equity value in an effort to dispel that he and his partners are out to make the rich, richer.”

Jay-Z has not only put his reputation on the line, but has made such superstars as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and his wife Beyoncé look bad. Certainly, one has to credit Jay-Z for trying to come up with a service that is beneficial to both the artists and music listeners, but the approach to Tidal appears to be have been flawed from the very start. Do you think Jay-Z can recover from the Tidal disaster? Let us know in the comments section.
 

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Jay Z And Madonna's Failing Tidal Music Service Is Hemorrhaging Money While Inadvertently Increasing Rival Spotify's Revenues


Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, DeadAmu5, Kanye West, Jay Z and J Cole (also known as Hollywood's self-professed "Illuminati")
Many have labeled the new fee based music streaming service Tidal a rip off of Spotify. So imagine the irony that Spotify's sales have increased as Tidal launched and promptly crashed and burned. Tidal sent Spotify up the Apple app charts. Jay Z, Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna and other recording artists in the so-called, self-labeled Hollywood "Illuminati" thought Tidal would make them billionaires. In actuality, they are in the hole as the service tanks.

The aforementioned artists bought Tidal for $54,000,000 and roped in investors, who are watching as their money goes up in smoke. Service costs and staff salaries are in the millions. The CEO has already been fired after the barely launched venture descended into a financial fiasco.

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Tidal crashes out of top 700 apps in US download chart, boosts Spotify sales

Wednesday 22 April 2015 - Tidal does not seem to have instigated the music streaming revolution it’s A-lister panel had hoped, with early numbers for Jay Z's app suggesting it's flopping or flopped. The service was designed to give musicians a fairer deal and bigger share of streaming profits, but put across a bit of a mixed message at its launch by placing the world's biggest artists at its fore, implying that users should be worrying over whether Madonna or Nicki Minaj's pockets are sufficiently lined.

Tidal climbed into the US iPhone top 20 download chart briefly following the event, but has since crashed out of the top 700. It doesn't seem to have taken down its rivals with it either. On 20 April, Pandora and Spotify occupied the number three and four positions - marking the first time two music streaming apps have placed in the top 4 simultaneously and knocking down the world-conquering Candy Crush in the process...
 

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Snoop Dogg's Son Slams Jay Z, Beyonce, Rihanna And Madonna For Being Greedy And Not Caring About The Public


Corde Broadus and Snoop Dogg

Corde Broadus, the reality star son of rapper, Snoop Dogg, slammed Jay Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Madonna over the new Tidal music streaming service that was recently launched. Social networking comments and blog posts have been very unfavorable, labeling the aforementioned artists greedy and stating they will not pay to join the service. Corde was no different. He made posts on Instagram slamming the artists involved with Tidal.



Corde's posts on Instagram

Exzisting music streaming services such as Spotify have taken digs at Tidal via tweets on Twitter. They are not impressed with the venture that launched by insulting Spotify and payment rates. The irony is Jay Z and Madonna, among others involved in the promotion of Tidal, are the biggest thieves and fraudsters in the music industry, routinely stealing from other artists and ripping off producers, songwriters and musicians.


Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, DeadAmu5, Kanye West, Jay Z and J Cole (also known as Hollywood's self-professed "Illuminati") 

The aforementioned artists constantly defraud and shortchange others in questionable business deals. There are many lawsuits that attest to this fact. They are known in the industry for this financial fraud and avarice. Therefore, how can they be trusted to pay people what they are owed from Tidal, when court records reveal otherwise.

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