Two years ago, Jay-Z announced on Twitter that Tidal crossed the bar of one million users. The platform itself declared a 3 million mark but many analysts and newspapers say it is much less. When you read the press, you will find many different numbers for the total subscribers. TIDAL Subscribers Numbers Is An Unsolved M ystery If you want to increase the quality of your listening you better invest in proper headphones no matter which tool you are using. The encoding between the 2 companies is not necessary different but it is true the sound is slightly louder on Tidal (which does not mean a better quality). Both services integrate music from CD support. What this listener will feel is that music on Tidal is somehow “louder”. The “advanced listener” will invest in a very high fidelity headphones and be very sensitive to details. The average listener will not notice any difference with Spotify. Here is the most important question: is the sound better on Tidal? Frankly? No. One of the interesting aspects of launching TIDAL was the promise of a better sound quality. Today, the Swedish platform has 96 million paid users (207 million in total) for a global catalogue of 40 million songs. In comparison, Spotify used to have back in 2015 around 15 million paid users and 30 million songs. Four years later, the platform declares to have 3 Million paid users and about 60 million songs. In one year, Jay-Z platform did have a great start. Why? TIDAL Never took-off reallyīack in 2015, when we wrote our article about Tidal, the streaming platform accounted for 500’000 users worldwide and around 20 million songs. Well, three years later, the album is finally on Spotify and in other streaming platforms. When Beyonce launched her latest album Lemonade only on TIDAL, the message was clear. Is this the sign of Tidal’s end? Four years ago, we wrote about TIDAL and the way Jay-Z (Beyonce’s husband) wanted to revolutionize the music streaming industry. She’s supported Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and demanded reforms on gun control in the US.Three years after the launch of Beyonce’s Lemonade album, her latest, it is finally available on Spotify and other streaming platforms. She’s been involved in multiple philanthropic initiatives including BeyGOOD, an organisation she set up initially to help with recovery for Hurricane Harvey.īeyoncé has also been very open about her political stances, unfazed by any potential big label fears of alienating fans. Clean reputationĮven with her documentted relationship woes, Beyoncé has managed to keep a pretty squeaky-clean record when it comes to controversies.Īs one of the most successful artists of her era, with an estimated net worth in the billions, she’s made few enemies. Just like her appearance at Barack Obama’s inauguration and the Destiny’s Child reunion in her Super Bowl halftime show, Beyoncé understands the art of only hitting the headlines when she’s got something big going on. How many nonsense Kanye headlines can you read in a row before you become immune to their effect?īut when Beyoncé refers to marital issues in ‘Sorry’ on 2016’s ‘Lemonade’, everyone stops and listens. Between 19, the group released five albums that have gone on to sell over sixty million copies.īeyonce and Jay Z performing "Drunk in Love" at the 56th annual Grammy Awards Matt Sayles/Matt Sayles/Invision/APĪnd it’s made all the difference to her elusive celebrity status. Had the output Destiny’s Child produced encompassed Beyoncé’s entire career, she would still have been part of one of the most successful music acts of the era.īeyoncé and Kelly Rowland were the most consistent members of the group, with Michelle Williams joining for the critical and commercial chart-topping album ‘Survivor’. Bold choicesīefore Beyoncé was Beyoncé, she was one third of the supreme girl group Destiny’s Child. But there are a few specific things she’s done to cement her place in music history. How has Beyoncé created so much hype and momentum around her releases? It’s not been an easy journey. That attention could also be said to extend to Rihanna, Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and not many more. There are only a handful of artists today who could elicit such a big and immediate response to a new album. The four horseBey's of the apocalypse might be absurd, but it's an example of just how much hype she can drum up. There's even a conspiracy theory that's gaining traction online, linking Beyoncé’s multiple appearances on horses for the album to a doomsday prophesy.