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Did Tidal Fake 300 Million Streams For Beyonce And Kanye West?

Did Tidal Fake 300 Million Streams For Beyonce And Kanye West?

Tidal—Jay Z’s music streaming platform is being accused of manipulating its audience’s listening numbers for albums by Beyonce and Kanye West in order to pay out larger royalties to the artists’ music labels. An investigation, which began in 2017 by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv found that Tidal massively inflated 320 million plays for Beyonce’s Lemonade and Kanye West’s Life of Pablo albums.

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