It's over for TIDAL – Accused of Massively Inflating Beyoncé and Kanye Streaming Numbers

[Piff Perkins]

This kinda stuff always follows Jay, but I wanna see receipts before believing this based on the "crack dealer" shyt

What receipts do you need? Look at Tidal's subscriber base and compare it to the streams those albums allegedly racked up in a week. 250mil off less than 3mil total subscribers?


Apple probably did this with Drake too btw...we'll see.

 

[Harry B]

Other than those just by skimming through it I found the first error in this scientific report, which is just super basic sql queries btw, they say one proof of manipulation is that it's impossible to play songs at the same time with 1 user. Neglecting the fact that you can actually be 3 people on one user ID with offline mode. This should be very easy to google for anyone conducting a scientific study.

Or this one

Figure 2 shows a steady number of log entries in the first period, until a significant spike on 2016-02-14 until 2016-02-23. The steady number was between 9-10 million, while the spike is as much as 52 million log entries on 2016-02-14. This results in a 477.78% increase of log entries in just one day. This is almost inconceivable and as such is suspicious.

This is consistent with what we see in the dates which are not affected by the sudden spikes in playbacks. For example, 2016-02-13 had about 10 million paybacks, while 2016-02-24 had about 20 million playbacks. Thus, 60 million playbacks for the two suspicious spikes cannot be caused by the system users alone.

The Life Of Pablo being released for free and increasing Tidal plays significantly is suspicious? Haven't we seen that albums always drop 60-80% in the first week? They are comparing Rihanna to Beyonce and Kanye, the big difference is the two latter had a free option, which they randomly neglect in this comprehensive study. That's why pure data geeks are wack, you need to understand what you are analyzing or at least bounce ideas with them.

I did find the 3 song pattern interesting though, they might have something on that. Either that's fraudulent on the behalf of Tidal, the Norwegian journalists or Tidal's system was overwhelmed by the new users and rounded in multiples of three. The latter might be true since I note that they are not attributing those plays to Kanye, but the total play.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

What receipts do you need? Look at Tidal's subscriber base and compare it to the streams those albums allegedly racked up in a week. 250mil off less than 3mil total subscribers?


Apple probably did this with Drake too btw...we'll see.

No doubt, the whole streaming numbers culture we're in now is suspect as hell

Im just not feeling the source and the implied bias of how 1) they're going after the small fish knowing damn well this is happening elsewhere 2) the pseudo racist shyt they may have said in the past

Not defending Tidal cause I've been critical in the past, but they also had free trials n shyt going on that may not reflect the current subscriber base

 

[Preach Jackson]

jay playing by the same rules the white people do

like post malone don't be putting up some fugazi numbers

my sentiments exactly

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

You linked some no name site. Nobody cares breh. If Tidal go down they all fall. Basically Tidal will never go down for this. Personally they all fudge the numbers streaming services are a free bank to labels. And Jay playing both sides to get that paper as he should. nikka a born hustler.

 

[hex]

But The Coli told me you can't manipulate streaming numbers.

Fred.

 

[OG Talk]

Damn.. This means as bad as we think the Kanye fall off has been... Its actually been much worse.

“I gave you 20 million fake streams without blinking/ You gave me 20 minutes on stage, what was you thinking?”

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

This kinda stuff always follows Jay, but I wanna see receipts before believing this based on the "crack dealer" shyt

I was all in till I read that. I think a lot of these streaming numbers seem suspect..... But as soon as the petty name calling came in it seems awfully strange. Let the data and results speak for themselves.

Maybe Apple or Spotify paid this man to go all in....

 

[tuckgod]

Cosby, 'Ye, Gambino, Kellz, Jay, Parker

Plus they already tarnished MJ and Prince's legacy

I hope y'all peeping what's really going down..

I know they going through Coogler's old tweets, FB posts, school history, etc. like he's applying for a TS clearance.

 

[Self_Born7]

jay having a tough week... guess he must have pissed off the establishment.

 

[Deltron]

why they only calling out tidal?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Whoever believes the streaming numbers out there is a fukkin moronic fool

they're not hard to believe. The most popular artist are the one getting the plaques.

Its not like Royce da 5'9" is all of sudden going gold because of streaming

 

[wire28]

bar none get ya ass in here play boi

 

[SAINT]

Smh white people say snitching

 

[MIKE SPLEAN]

Apple does the same shyt