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Madonna, Beyoncé, Nicki, Rihanna, Kanye, Jay Z & others - new owners of Tidal


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Bellatrix

​Haha! Okay, my suggestions.
Artists you've listed now are in the "campaign" and/or video teaser. Most artists's music is already available so maybe you could clarify that in the OP when you say "joined Tidal".

The livestream is in about 3 hours and goes live on http://tidal.com/us

Article about all we know right now: 
 

Tidal, the high-definition music streaming service acquired by rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, is gearing up for its official relaunch under new ownership later today, and it will be doing so by reportedly making a move to snag new releases by some of the biggest musicians of the moment including Kanye West, Madonna and Daft Punk, ahead of rival services like Spotify and Beats. The company has been sending out invites for a press conference being held at 5pm Eastern time today, in which Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter “will announce a commitment to a new direction for the music industry from both a creative and business perspective.” While there is not much detail being provided officially, unofficially we’ve heard that the company will be using the event to confirm the first big-name artists to stream music exclusively on the Tidal platform. What might those artists be doing on Tidal? Not an ordinary streaming deal, it seems. Over the weekend, the Swedish blog Breakit reported — citing sources close to the deal — that Tidal’s plan of attack will be to ink first-window deals with the artists, where Tidal would get first releases of tracks from big-name artists ahead of any other digital streaming services. This would be exclusive, but only for a period: Spotify, Deezer and others would eventually also get these tracks, but only later. This is not unlike how services like Netflix often get films after they have gone through cinema and DVD release windows, and subsequently what Vessel is trying to do to upend that. For those of you who browse social networks or follow music news, the list of artists gathering around Tidal shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise: a swathe of big-name musicians — including Madonna, Kanye West, Beyonce, Arcade Fire, Calvin Harris and others are using the #tidalforall hashtag on sites like Twitter and Instagram, as well as sending out messages or just changing their profile to a turquoise blue color to support the service. It’s a pretty strong bet that the artists that all started sending these out around midnight Eastern time will be among those involved in some way in the news today. It would also follow on the heels of Taylor Swift’s catalog coming to Tidal last week — minus her 1989 album. This is not an exclusive deal but lays the groundwork for other Swift music to make its way to Tidal first. What’s the pull for these artists? It’s partly the Jay-Z connection. His Roc Nation agency works with a long list of musicians to provide publishing, management, label and other services, with Tidal becoming yet another string on Roc Nation’s bow as a one-stop music distribution shop. On the other hand, from what we understand, Tidal is also offering a more attractive set of terms to musicians than other streaming services — often agreeing to payouts of twice as much as its rivals. (We’ve asked to see if we can get more concrete numbers to support the claim.) With many artists complaining that digital music is not providing decent enough returns, the later of these could be a deal maker for Tidal. The big question is whether artists are willing to make the bet on payouts-per-stream over that of visibility: right now Tidal has only 35,000 subscribers paying $19.99 per month across the markets in which it is active, which include the U.S. and UK. By comparison, Spotify noted 15 million paying subscribers in January of this year. Tidal also offers a standard definition service at $9.99. While Jay-Z won agreement this month from Aspiro shareholders to buy Tidal for $54 million, the shares are not due to transfer until mid-April, we understand.
Source: http://techcrunch.com

​Thank you! :) :hug: 

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Psychedelic

OMG, some of you take the idea of 'disccussion forum' too seriously, why did this have to go messy and related to one specific artist? :air: 

Back on topic, the publicity campaign is great!

 

 

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jojuun

​Thank you! :)

​You are very welcome! I do think I'm going to make a thread about the livestream and the official announcement and press release they are going to give out, so we can have a discussion about the actual service instead. If that's okay with you and the mods of course.

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Bellatrix

​You are very welcome! I do think I'm going to make a thread about the livestream and the official announcement and press release they are going to give out, so we can have a discussion about the actual service instead. If that's okay with you and the mods of course.

​Yeah, sure! :)

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Jester

:air:

 

EDIT: When you search for #TIDALforALL, these 4 pop out as the most popular photos for that hashtag :air:

 

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JbGaga

​Just wait until Gaga leaves spotify too :fan:

​I don't really listen to gaga on Spotify.... I own all her albums on my ipod

For me Spotify is either my relaxing, study music or my edm playlist. So ill live :dreamwarrior:

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KaanBTW

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EDIT: When you search for #TIDALforALL, these 4 pop out as the most popular photos for that hashtag ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >

 

:rip:

 

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Spock

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EDIT: When you search for #TIDALforALL, these 4 pop out as the most popular photos for that hashtag ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >

 

​There's also this Iggy image with the caption "Iggy at the Tidal meeting"

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