Tidal App Leaves iTunes Top 700, Is A 'Spectacular Flop'

Tidal has always felt like a wave that was about to crash, and the numbers reported today by BGR revealed that it was a Justin Guarini-level flop.

Tidal has always felt like a wave that was about to crash, and the numbers reported today by BGR revealed that it was a Justin Guarini-level flop.
Andy Chen, the CEO of Jay Z’s highly confusing and unlikable music streaming service Tidal, has left the company, along with around 25 other employees. A Tidal rep is calling these departures “streamlining” and “redundancies,” which are nice fancy words for everything going to hell. Via Business Insider, we’ve got the…
I mean it! The new video for Rihanna's moody, mid-tempo, cursing salutation of her adopted country (a song co-written with X Ambassadors' Sam Harris) pulls the cheap yet wildly effective trick of montage juxtaposition, all in the palette of American strife and striving: a protestor throws a Molotov cocktail, a…
Two weeks ago, a happy-go-lucky troupe of ragtag recording artists (collective net worth: over $2,000,000,000) stood shoulder to shoulder on a stage and asked for your money. In return they would give you "TIDAL," a streaming music website and app that costs too much. I gave it a try. You should not.
Quite a few brands appeared in Shade Court this week. Some did much better than others. Still, to all the brand strategists and social media managers and plucky interns out there, I have one suggestion: stick to what you know. It’s a slight spin on that ancient adage, “stay in your damn lane.” If you make underwear,…
On Monday, Jay Z held a bonkers, star-studded press conference for his new streaming service Tidal where he explained...well, nothing in particular. BUT a declaration was signed. And Alicia Keys referenced Nietzsche. When it was all said and done, we Replied All: “What?"
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TIDAL, Jay Z's illuminati zone for streaming internet music, launched today, and the press conference might well have been absurdist performance art, some kind of corporate-monied Fluxus play, down to the noodling saxophone soundtrack that seemed piped straight from John Zorn's brain. Or, alternately, Alicia Keys…