Tidal's In Big Trouble

When Jay-Z bought the music streaming service Tidal last year the purchase was met with a lot of hope and controversy.

Since then it's been all downhill. Just in the last 30 days:

• Tidal exclusively released Kanye West's latest album The Life of Pablo, which gained no traction on the Billboard charts since Tidal refused to release any of the user data to Nielsen.

• A class-action lawsuit for $5 million for failing to register and pay mechanical royalties to an artist in the U.S. ...

• Today it's being reported that Tidal fired both its COO and CFO, after having fired it's CEO late last year...

Jay-Z has reportedly been in talks with Samsung to buy Tidal, but one wonders why that company would even want it, since it already has a failing music service in Milk Music. Tidal could have been an innovator and leader in the streaming sector, but instead it's just a mess...

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