• @vxx@lemmy.world
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      1024 days ago

      A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z.

      The proposal was to pay the artists more.

      Sounds good, but I think the majority goes to the labels anyways, so it doesn’t change much for the artists.

      The main issue is executives basically enslaving their artists with “360 deal” contracts.

      • Virkkunen
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        824 days ago

        Spotify actually pays 70% of the streams to the label, which trickles down to a bunch of nothing for the artist. Tidal wanted to change that and pay directly to the artist

        • @vxx@lemmy.world
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          424 days ago

          How is that possible if the labels own the music and there’s a contract that sets the percentages.

          All music streaming services say “paying the artist” in their communication.

      • @jrgn@lemmy.world
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        121 days ago

        It was a Norwegian platform called Wimp, but Jay-Z bought it, rebranded it to Tidal and moved HQ from Oslo to the states.

      • @dufkm@lemmy.world
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        022 days ago

        A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z

        Really? That’s not how I remembered it, I just thought he bought the existing service Wimp and rebranded it. Kudos to Jay-Z if he actually made a music streaming app though.

    • @Dempf@lemmy.zip
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      224 days ago

      Streams flac. Good supplement to piracy. I might switch to Qobuz sometime, but it works well for now.