Samsung, Google and Spotify Have Considered Buying Tidal: Report

[Cladyclad]

There is no such thing as a Tidal exclusive.. I wish folks would stop using that term..

The only thing less exclusive than streaming content on the Internet, is tap water...

ask somebody who has apple music or spotify can they stream Kanye new album?

 

[Maschine_Man]

Hmmmm.....Google

People LAUGHED when Snapchat refused that 4 billion dollar offer and then the value went up when they held out.

SC was just waiting for Daniel to come through and crush the buildings....now they really laughing their way to the bank

 

[Maschine_Man]

Please. This is business. Always. If you got caught up in the rhetoric that's your fault. I salute any black man that can nearly double down on his initial investment. Especially when that investment was 8 figures.

Maybe that's just me tho. I ain't sign up for shyt on tidal, so what do I care?

I didn't get caught up with that, nor did I fall for any of that trash.

They were just artists looking to make a business deal, the fact that they were trying to take this higher moral ground to sell it is what was so transparent, but only to a few.

This announcement alone, will probably start turning ppl away now that they see how they were being played.

 

[eastside313]

No, I doubt it. That's not how Jay does business. All his business investments have always been long term. He invested in the Nets for like a decade before he flipped those shares and that was only when he got into Sports Management. Rocawear, Ace of Spaces, 40-40, the advertising company, the labels, clothing brands, etc. Dude has never done a quick flip.

If anything, Samsung would get a substantial minority share and it into its default application which makes sense. The artists would gain from the move though because it means they would get twice of what they invested. I just don't see it though, if you use Tidal it has his fingerprints all over it. But to really compete he needs for it to be the default Samsung application.

Second, it would make no sense to acquire Tidal without Jay Z and the minority owners being involved because they all control their masters. Why would they give Tidal exclusives if they no longer own it? Buying Tidal out without keeping all of those investors on board does not make financial sense. You would lose all the exclusives. People need to start critically thinking instead of accepting every article as true.

 

[OG Talk]

ask somebody who has apple music or spotify can they stream Kanye new album?

I have Spotify and my girl has Apple..

We both had TLOP within an hour of its Tidal release. Why would we need to waste data/battery streaming it when we already "own" it?

 

[Family Lives Matter]

100 million to Samsung is nothing.
They should do it as a 'just in case' buy IMO.

Yeah because thats how business stay profitable
Aquire assets just because 100 million is nothing to them
The coli man I love this site

 

[scarhead]

Yeah because thats how business stay profitable
Aquire assets just because 100 million is nothing to them
The coli man I love this site

Not that funny since I used to actually work at Samsung and still have folks working there in Dallas and in Korea HQ, Suwon to be exact. Dig up my old post on Sohh. I talked about it there.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Those artists don't own their masters besides Jay-Z.

 

[McPiff]

Yup. Just as I predicted. Jay has been a sellout from jump.

fukk a tidal.

So none of this is official but he's a sellout ?

 

[Dre Space Age]

It'd be kinda hilarious if after all this music revolution, change the game forever, ownership talk they sold out to the first corporate offer they received and the whole thing was revealed as just another quick money grab

lmfaoooooooooo

 

[Art Barr]

You can tell some of y'all are literally foaming at the mouth at an opportunity to call Jay-Z a sellout.

When was jayz not a sellout?

Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

Yeah because thats how business stay profitable
Aquire assets just because 100 million is nothing to them
The coli man I love this site

You really don't know about the tech, or telecom world.
It happens all the time.
Tech and telecom companies are cop and blow.


Art Barr

 

[No1]

They all do except the people signed to this label called Roc Nation (and maybe Madonna) and Beyonce, but her contract with Sony is about to be up.

 

[No1]

So none of this is official but he's a sellout ?

These are the same people stanning all of Nas' business moves. The internet really reveals to me how artists have stans and haters. Normal people don't act like this. shyt is weird.

 

[Rarebird77]

Nah

Yep.