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Jay-Z’s Tidal service is bombing already

When Jay-Z and a number of other high profile artists relaunched HD streaming music service Tidal at the end of March, it came complete with a sanctimonious video of artists explaining to each other just how downtrodden they were by the music business and how much better Tidal would be. This clearly didn't resonate much with audiences, as despite some initial press on the subject, the app that the launch was pushing, has practically fallen off the map.

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Even most of the people attending the faux-meeting seemed disinterested. I think that woman's asleep. 

Perhaps it had something to do with the artists crying poverty in the video all being multi-millionaires many times over, but whatever the reason, the Tidal app has fallen out of the top 700 most popular on the US iPhone download chart, according to BGR. Rubbing salt in the wound is the fact that the collapse of Tidal's popularity seems to have been linked with an increase in streaming over all, with rivals Spotify, Pandora and the relatively fresh faced Beats, all increasing their revenue and user numbers.

This highlights the precarious position that Tidal finds itself in. It is facing off against three very established streaming platforms, as well as traditionally popular download sources like Amazon and iTunes. Even with exclusive content and backing from some of the world's biggest, back-patting artists, it's difficult to imagine it suddenly surging ahead in popularity, even if it does offer some music at higher quality for an increased monthly fee. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=cYYGdcLbFkw']

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KitGuru Says: Tidal's big splash launch just seemed to make waves for already existing streaming services. Now it faces a tsunami of competition. And lots more water metaphors. 

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8 comments

  1. Good news, i mean they werent happy with 10 euro a month for the music service spotify and this guy tought he could just double it and let these “poor” music stars cry their eyebals out how poor they are and need more money for a song.

    Seriously the greed of these music stars knows no boundery’s, the richer they get the more delusional they become.

  2. Yes! And I think we could use the same perspective on Apple.

  3. I bought £35 worth of food 62 days ago now and i am still just eating that food because times are rubbish. I cry for you musicians, are you eating more than just pasta everyday? If so shut up!

  4. OR the artists could have signed up for the paid youtube and had a much better platform to build on.

  5. I agree to a large extent as long as it’s also considered that many up and coming artists are taking advantage of by labels / put into contracts where most money is funneled to the label.

  6. Dude, im in the same boat… I’m a terrible person for not signing up for Jay’s program!!!! $20.00 a month might be a bit too low though, how will they afford multiple Bugattis?

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  8. People….are incredibly stupid.