Tidal accused of manipulating Kanye West and Beyoncé's numbers

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TIDAL has recently been accused of faking streams for Beyoncé and Kanye West by the Norwegian Center for Cyber and Information Security, though the company denies the claims. I'm LIVING. 

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tidal-accused-of-faking-streams-to-boost-beyonc-and-kanye-west-w520088 

[FentyGa 14,340]

I mean, they have contracts with the artists themselves so I'm not exactly surprised.

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of course, everything about beyonce and jay z is fake and overhyped as always, they're shady af, idk if the Illuminati is real but these two are doing shady stuff behind the curtains for sure.

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Does this mean Madonna's new album will outsell LG6?

[Easy 5,296]

I have 2 Tidal accounts I have never streamed Lemonade more than 10 times on them. I’m pretty sure many more Tidal users out there haven’t listened to Lemonade or TLOP at all. No matter how they gon explain this, we all know how heterosexual the numbers are 

[River 116,155]

It was kinda obvious

Those numbers were so unrealistic compare to the people who are using this service..

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3 minutes ago, Rumours1977 said:

Does this mean Madonna's new album will outsell LG6?

If it’s a Tidal exclusive, it will outsell LG6789 combined but slightly less than Lemonade coz Jay-Z will make sure his wife is the one with the most hype. 

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in other news, water is wet.

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i've got those "hundred million false plays" to listen awaaaay

but baby i just need one real one to stay

 

EDIT:

"Tidal claimed that West’s album The Life of Pablo had been streamed 250 million times in its first 10 days, and that Beyoncé’s album Lemonade garnered 306 million streams in its first 15 days. At the time, Tidal reported 3 million subscribers, meaning that every subscriber would have been playing the albums nearly a dozen times a day"

EDIT EDIT:

"Midia Research analyst Mark Mulligan also said Tidal’s active subscriber count, based on its revenue, could not be higher than 1 million."

Also, Beyonce needs to release Lemonade on Apple Music ASAP

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Bey and Jay are fraud and need to be prosecuted   

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Having millions of streams on Tidal is like having millions of $$$ on Monopoly. Same logic, same usefulness  They inflate their numbers to make Beyoncé/Kanye west/WhoeverIsOnTidal seem relevant.

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Can Bobby make Gaga a Tidal exclusive then ?

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But their streaming numbers are kinda weak so ... It doesn’t make sense at all. 

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Inb4 Rolling Stone and everyone that believe this are racist 

Inb4 basic math is racist 

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7 minutes ago, Triggered said:

Inb4 Rolling Stone and everyone that believe this are racist 

Inb4 basic math is racist 

People already were blaming racism in the comments on RS tweet about this.