Tidal accused of inflating Beyonce and Kanye West streaming stats
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Jay-Z’s music streaming app Tidal has been accused of inflating the number of listens racked up by Beyonc and Kanye West, but the company is firing back at the Norwegian magazine that reported the charges.
In 2016, the music service Tidal had reported some eye-popping stream counts for Beyonc’s album “Lemonade” and West’s “The Life of Pablo.” In its first 15 days, “Lemonade” generated 300 million streams, and West’s album got 250 million streams in 10 days.
Those are numbers impressive even on Spotify, the No. 1 music app with 170 million monthly active users. (Tidal claims to have 3 million monthly subscribers.) Last year, Taylor Swift debuted her single “Look What You Made Me Do” on Spotify, and it was the best first-day opening on the appwith 8 million streams. Spotify was not available for comment.
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