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Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service

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Re: Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service

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You single out Taylor Swift, the number one recording artist in the country today. She's sold millions and millions of albums. Her brand in this country is certainly bigger than Spotify's. If spotify had 100 million active users you bet your ass Taylor Swift and every other professional recording artist would be in their catalog. But it's just a fraction of that size. Streaming music is still a fragmented market. Spo…

I didn't single out Swift. I mentioned her in conjunction with Jay Z and Garth Brooks.There are a lot of bigger artists on Spotify than Taylor Swift though.

Jay Z and Garth Brooks are also among the best selling recording artists of all time. All three have bigger brands than Spotify. And Swift is currently the best selling artist in the United States, so "bigger artists" is clearly subjective...

Re: Jay Z Reveals Plans for Tidal, a Streaming Music Service

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The plan was unveiled on Monday at a brief but highly choreographed news conference in Manhattan, where Jay Z stood alongside more than a dozen musicians identified as Tidal’s owners. They included Rihanna, Kanye West, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Jack White, Alicia Keys, the country singer Jason Aldean, the French dance duo Daft Punk (in signature robot costumes), members of Arcade Fire, and Beyoncé, Jay Z’s wife. That's a…

you spelled "kook" wrong, independant of the quality of the broth.
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