Jay Z Taking Former TIDAL Owners To Court For $15 Million
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Jay Z is suing TIDAL's former owners, claiming they were untruthful about the amount of subscribers the streaming service had upon selling the company to the rapper.
According to Music Business Worldwide, Jay Z is seeking $15 million from the former shareholders of Aspiro, the parent company of TIDAL. This translates to about 100 million Norwegian Krone. The Rap mogul acquired the streaming service for a reported $57 million. He was told that TIDAL had 530,000 subscribers as of January 2015 and now says that figure was "misleading."
Hov adds to his suit the fact that the owners were not transparent about the condition of Aspiro's business structure, which the rapper says was much worse than reported.
One of the shareholders, Schibsted, says it did nothing wrong in the business transaction.
"We want to point out that it was a publicly traded company that was acquired, [which means] transparency of financial reporting [was required]," Communications Manager Anders Rikter said to Norwegian publication Dagens Næringsliv. "Otherwise we have no comments.”
Upon its one year anniversary, TIDAL reported three million subscribers worldwide. Kanye West's The Life of Pablo was reportedly streamed 250 million times in the first 10 days after its February release.
TIDAL has had its fair share of hiccups in its one year of existence, going through three CEOs, experiencing a leak of Rihanna's ANTI album and facing lawsuits from Birdman over the release of Lil Wayne's Free Weezy Album and a separate suit from independent artist John Emanuele for what he claims is unfair compensation.
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Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
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I'll give this one to Dame, this is typical business ? . 'Im always in court' .
But inb4 the feaux in-depth strategy session. The IC gets corny when people roast and/or comment on ? they couldn't possibly have any inkling or inside knowledge of. Never trust a man who never tells you he does not know something . Yes, this proactively means you the resident blowhard @Sion -
Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball. -
Monizzle14 wrote: »Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
And you know the numbers are false how again??? Please reveal your source to us.....oh my bad I forgot you just talking... Continue -
This ? 's obsession with tidal makes every tidal thread wack
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Kanye saved tidal.
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Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
well dammmmmm lol
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Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway? -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway?
Yeah that's him.
Punk ? -
Louis Devinear wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway?
Yeah that's him.
Punk ?
Damn Daniel -
Louis Devinear wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway?
Yeah that's him.
Punk ?
What the ? ?
Was Jared waiting for him outside? -
IceBergTaylor wrote: »This ? 's obsession with tidal makes every tidal thread wack
Lol says the ? who lurks in my threads hitting feelings buttons but "doesn't read". go write an pop song about how you hate monizzle icebergtaylorswift. -
Shizlansky wrote: »Louis Devinear wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway?
Yeah that's him.
Punk ?
What the ? ?
Was Jared waiting for him outside?
Even worse Killa Chamdusky trying to get me to take a ride in his van. ? used no ? more times than lil wayne in 06 in that thread a few months ago on me. -
Monizzle14 wrote: »Shizlansky wrote: »Louis Devinear wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Too easy LOLOLOLOL
You 2 ? ass ? are the resident losers of the IC, you try too hard, so with that said I'm going to Ill Pix LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We try way to hard? Haha ? you just said "lolololol" in all caps twice in the same damn post. What a sorry ass clown you are sion. Your posts are as predictable as them ? who always go right with the ball in pick up basketball.
Were you the guy who was too scared to come out of Subway?
Yeah that's him.
Punk ?
What the ? ?
Was Jared waiting for him outside?
Even worse Killa Chamdusky trying to get me to take a ride in his van. ? used no ? more times than lil wayne in 06 in that thread a few months ago on me.
You still ? -
Monizzle14 wrote: »Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
And you know the numbers are false how again??? Please reveal your source to us.....oh my bad I forgot you just talking... Continue
My source is simple math. You keep asking me how it was true but even you can't explain how a few million subscribers and free trial ? listened to TLOP 83 times a week. You dodging using logic and simple math. The numbers tidal submitted themselves to the press don't add up. I don't need a source for that lol. -
He cant be mad at phoney numbers, not after that 92 bricks ?
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Monizzle14 wrote: »IceBergTaylor wrote: »This ? 's obsession with tidal makes every tidal thread wack
Lol says the ? who lurks in my threads hitting feelings buttons but "doesn't read". go write an pop song about how you hate monizzle icebergtaylorswift.
lol this lyin ass neega I only ever been in one of your tidal threads and that was recently. This ? hate tidal so much he's willing to die for this ? . Dead at "icebergtaylorswift" no wonder why folks clown you on here you're a dweeb bozo
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Monizzle14 wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
And you know the numbers are false how again??? Please reveal your source to us.....oh my bad I forgot you just talking... Continue
My source is simple math. You keep asking me how it was true but even you can't explain how a few million subscribers and free trial ? listened to TLOP 83 times a week. You dodging using logic and simple math. The numbers tidal submitted themselves to the press don't add up. I don't need a source for that lol.
For the numbers not to add up you'd have to have all the numbers to try and add.... Do you know how many free trials streamed the album??? You don't right??? All you know is the 3 million...... ? talking bout simple math but don't even have the numbers to add with...... Lol -
IceBergTaylor wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »IceBergTaylor wrote: »This ? 's obsession with tidal makes every tidal thread wack
Lol says the ? who lurks in my threads hitting feelings buttons but "doesn't read". go write an pop song about how you hate monizzle icebergtaylorswift.
lol this lyin ass neega I only ever been in one of your tidal threads and that was recently. This ? hate tidal so much he's willing to die for this ? . Dead at "icebergtaylorswift" no wonder why folks clown you on here you're a dweeb bozo
Malice and Bcotton tried to tell y'all -
you know monizzle is unfunny when supernaswankster has funnier posts than him
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Monizzle14 wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
And you know the numbers are false how again??? Please reveal your source to us.....oh my bad I forgot you just talking... Continue
My source is simple math. You keep asking me how it was true but even you can't explain how a few million subscribers and free trial ? listened to TLOP 83 times a week. You dodging using logic and simple math. The numbers tidal submitted themselves to the press don't add up. I don't need a source for that lol.
For the numbers not to add up you'd have to have all the numbers to try and add.... Do you know how many free trials streamed the album??? You don't right??? All you know is the 3 million...... ? talking bout simple math but don't even have the numbers to add with...... Lol
Even if they had 7 million free trial users and 3 million users each tidal users (regardless of musical preferences) would have had to listen to tlop 25 times in 10 days. That is damn near impossible. Especially since not every user is listening to Kanye on tidal. The numbers don't add up even if you look at the best cast scenario in user base. -
IceBergTaylor wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »IceBergTaylor wrote: »This ? 's obsession with tidal makes every tidal thread wack
Lol says the ? who lurks in my threads hitting feelings buttons but "doesn't read". go write an pop song about how you hate monizzle icebergtaylorswift.
lol this lyin ass neega I only ever been in one of your tidal threads and that was recently. This ? hate tidal so much he's willing to die for this ? . Dead at "icebergtaylorswift" no wonder why folks clown you on here you're a dweeb bozo
The last thread was the only tidal thread i actually made in the last 6 months. And there your hoe ass was ? about me making the thread then still following the thread post for post hitting feelings buttons. And who the ? uses the word dweeb outside of you and meek mill lol. -
Monizzle14 wrote: »Monizzle14 wrote: »Wait Jay suing o.g. tidal ? for false numbers and they just claimed in a press release TLOP got 250 million streams in 10 days?
And you know the numbers are false how again??? Please reveal your source to us.....oh my bad I forgot you just talking... Continue
My source is simple math. You keep asking me how it was true but even you can't explain how a few million subscribers and free trial ? listened to TLOP 83 times a week. You dodging using logic and simple math. The numbers tidal submitted themselves to the press don't add up. I don't need a source for that lol.
I remember a year or two ago seeing this pic or video of this girl with an abundance of smartphones (like 20 of the ? ) playing an album on all the devices to get streaming numbers up. Iirc, it was around when IYRTITL came out, so I mean, if muthafuckas are as big of stans as they show they are it might not be too farfetched. -
FishNChips wrote: »you know monizzle is unfunny when supernaswankster has funnier posts than him
You clownin him but u stole @supergangster whole persona for atleast a couple weeks. Something ain't adding up
