Music: report claims Tidal faked millions of streams for Beyoncé and Kanye West

[Pilky01]

Based on log data obtained by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, it appears the streaming numbers for Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo and Beyonce’s Lemonade were inflated through manipulated user play counts on Tidal, which increased royalty payouts. The findings were confirmed through data analysis done by the Norwegian Center for Cyber and Information Security, though Tidal denied the accusations.

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[Jumptheshark]

Are we shocked by this?

this comes out every couple of years when government's IRS came by the companies admit that most of the downloads were faked

 

[johnjm22]

Numbers in the music industry have always been fake.

 

[ProstheticConscience]