Tidal – The Talking Fern

TIDAL and SoundCloud now neck-and-neck in revenue terms, as Jay-Z streaming platform’s growth slowed in 2019

TIDAL turned over $167m in 2019; SoundCloud’s revenues that year shot up to $166m
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TIDAL adds millions of Master Quality tracks from Warner Music Group, including albums from Missy Elliott, The Notorious B.I.G. and Madonna

TIDAL claims to offer the largest MQA catalog outside of China
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TIDAL to livestream concert series in partnership with Facebook’s Oculus VR

All performances will be available simultaneously in Oculus Venues and TIDAL
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Jay-Z’s TIDAL makes VR concerts bet, buying $7m in tokens from $100m-backed Sensorium Corporation

“Our relationship with Sensorium provides TIDAL with the opportunity to gain exclusive rights for its stellar artist roster to have their shows and music broadcast exclusively within Sensorium’s themed virtual entertainment worlds.”
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TIDAL now officially a suspect in Norwegian data fraud investigation

Norway’s equivalent of the FBI seizes documents that contain “business and operating secrets”
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Jay-Z’s TIDAL saw global revenues rise to $148m in 2018 – but US revenues fell 20%

Losses narrow at streaming service which famously served superstars with equity stakes
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TIDAL adds Dolby Atmos; JAY-Z and other artist-owners mixing catalogs for format

Songs from The Weeknd, Blondie, Ariana Grande and more are available
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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

As we look back in on another busy week of music industry events, we review TIDAL’s executive staffing changes, the return of ‘vintage sound’ in music and why it’s happening, pop’s continued industry supremacy, and much more! TIDAL Ups Tony Gervino, Elliott Wilson To Executive Roles 11 Favorite Blogs For…

TIDAL promotes Tony Gervino and Elliott Wilson to Executive roles

Gervino and Wilson have been with TIDAL since early 2017
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TIDAL Ups Tony Gervino, Elliott Wilson To Executive Roles

TIDAL has announced two executive-level promotions – Tony Gervino has been appointed to EVP, Editor-in-Chief and Elliott Wilson to Chief Content Officer. Gervino will oversee all editorial direction at TIDAL, including leading a team of editors and programmers in multi-genre global playlist curation, as well as the digital magazine, READ….