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TIDAL is an artist owned site meaning that the
artists get the profit rather than the record companies.
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“TIDAL pays the highest percentage of royalties
to artists, songwriters and producers of any music streaming service.”
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TIDAL has high-fidelity sound.
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“High-fidelity sound is music files that have
not been compressed down. TIDAL relies on
FLAC, a more robust, more realistic streaming format than the compressed format
other services use or that you will find in our $9.99 tier.
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TIDAL does not offer a free option like Spotify or Pandora does.
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There are two tiers: $9.99 and $19.99.
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TIDAL is still new.
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Jay-Z pledges that this is just the beginning
and any ‘mistakes’ that have been made just means they are still learning.
So where does this leave us? As a Free Spotify listener, I
can tell you right now that I don’t want to pay for the music I listen while
doing homework. However, maybe I should
start paying. Spotify pays the record
companies a significantly low amount that the artist usually doesn’t see. As someone who claims to be creative, I’d
want to see the return that I worked so hard for. With Spotify and other
streaming services that is not the case.
For some students paying $10 or $20 is out of the
question. However, I encourage people to
think about paying. You would want to be paid for the hard work that you did
too, right?
**All information was
taken directly from TIDAL**
I think that with the introduction of the new student pricing, Tidal can definitely make a splash in the market - but it will depend on if they can keep up these exclusives. Without exclusives they don't really have any way of getting into the market - but props to Jay Z for thinking about something like that - it's a very intelligent way to grab customers.
ReplyDeleteOverall, time will tell whether or not Tidal succeeds. I might even take the free trial this summer and see how I like it (I'm currently a Google Play Music All Access subscriber and fan due to its integration into Android).