No, Kanye West, Apple Music Won’t Buy Out Tidal

Could this be the end for Tidal? No, Kanye West, No. Tidal’s not going to be bought out by Apple, despite your protests. The head of Apple Music, Jimmy Iovine, spoke Buzzfeed today and said that Apple Music isn’t interested in purchasing Jay Z’s Tidal music streaming service. “We’re really running our own race. We’re […]

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TIDAL parent lost around $2m a month last year, while seeking extra financing

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Tidal Song Downloader TiDown Taken Down By Illegal’ DMCA Notice

There’s no more free Tidal here. TiDown, your friendly, everyday Tidal downloading tool designed to help you download Tidal songs (illegally) has been shut down by Tidal. This comes days after it was officially released on GitHub. Speaking with TorrentFreak, German teenage coder Lordmau5 said, “I recently looked into some potential APIs and found out […]

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Tidal Song Downloader TiDown Taken Down By Illegal’ DMCA Notice

There’s no more free Tidal here. TiDown, your friendly, everyday Tidal downloading tool designed to help you download Tidal songs (illegally) has been shut down by Tidal. This comes days after it was officially released on GitHub. Speaking with TorrentFreak, German teenage coder Lordmau5 said, “I recently looked into some potential APIs and found out […]

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Illegal Downloads and Torrenting Surge On Frank Ocean’s Endless Album

Endless Exclusive = Endless Piracy… Frank Ocean’s visual album Endless dropped exclusively on Apple Music, with no sign of it becoming available on another music streaming service anytime soon.  Britney Spears will follow suit with her next studio album, Glory.  Beyoncé launched her visual album exclusively on Tidal.  Kanye West did the same with The […]

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Does High-Fidelity Music In Streaming Really Matter? Probably Not, Says a CNBC Test

With Tidal initially launching a $19.99 service for hi-fi audio fidelity, Deezer offering hi-fi as well, and an iPhone 7 without a headphone jack supposedly due to physical analog headphone jacks not being able to deliver high quality audio, music companies, music streaming companies, and manufacturers are pushing more and more for listeners to enjoy […]

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Apple Music Scores Exclusive Rights to Britney Spears Next Album, Glory

In its battle with online music streaming giant Spotify, Apple Music appears to have gotten the upper-hand this time around. After The New York Times reported Apple Music scored an exclusive deal with R&B singer Frank Ocean to distribute his highly-anticipated album, Boys Don’t Cry, exclusively through Apple Music for two weeks, Britney Spears took […]

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Apple Music Scores Exclusive Rights to Britney Spears Next Album, Glory

In its battle with online music streaming giant Spotify, Apple Music appears to have gotten the upper-hand this time around. After The New York Times reported Apple Music scored an exclusive deal with R&B singer Frank Ocean to distribute his highly-anticipated album, Boys Don’t Cry, exclusively through Apple Music for two weeks, Britney Spears took […]

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Kanye West Tells Apple: ‘Give Jay Z His Check for Tidal…’

Going on another one of his all-too-common signature rants on Twitter, Kanye West sent out a tweet storm, calling on Apple and Tidal executives, along with several other big-names in the music industry to hold a meeting and calm down the “beef” between both companies. Kanye West posted on Saturday: “I need Tim Cook Jay […]

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Spotify Boosts Paying Subscribers by 23%…

Spotify stays ahead of competition… According to a report by MBW, Spotify has hit 37 million paying subscribers, adding approximately 2 million paying users a month in the last quarter alone.  If these figures are correct, it means that June was the fastest growth period for the streaming service since launching in 2008. It would also represent […]

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