Today I decided to take a break from riding on Kendrick Lamar as my 2 previous post have been about him and take a turn to another major artists for the past years.
It has now been two weeks since Kanye West released his much anticipated album ” The Life Of Pablo ” however he did not and said he will not release it in stores and will only release on Tidal. This was one of the worst ideas Kanye, especially for someone who is 53 million dollars in debt.
Tidal
Now to give a background on Tidal. Tidal is Jay-z owned platform in which artist can release there albums not for download but for streaming. Sort of like Apple Music, Spotify. Kanye would have been alright if he wouldn’t have just made it available for Tidal subscribers. Now i’m pretty sure Kanye got a pretty big contract from Jay-Z for just make it exclusively on Tidal and I am also sure he gets money from every subscriber. Heck he might even have shares in Tidal, but he lost a significant amount of money. How much do you ask?
The lost of Pablo
In the course of a day this album got pirated over half a million times. Yes, according to sources of Torrenfreak, this album went gold on torrents in less than in a day. Now imagine if these would have been album sells or song paid for on Apple and such things as those. Pretty sure it would have put a hefty dent in Ye’s ( Kanye West ) debt.
For how much this album was hyped up, he would have sold major sales, even now if he would release a hard copy he would still make a hefty amount of sales. But than again Kanye would remain Kanye, and do stuff that sometimes makes no sense, are just illogical beyond believe.
The best outcome for him would have been to release it on tidal first, since he obviously wants Tidal to succeed, but should have dipped to many different areas to gain the most profit. Such as releasing it to apple there soon after. After a week also making a distribution to stores so all the hardcore and hard copy lovers could buy it and it own a physical copy. That way he would have made a heck of a lot more than he did on stupid Tidal.
And yes I fucking hate Tidal. I know no one in my friends group who owns a subscription, everyone I know would much rather A) Buy a physical copy or B) Buy it, and have it downloaded on to a device. It makes no sense to have a subscription to music, and once that subscription ends I can’t listen to that song anymore. Go fuck yourself Jay-Z, you had a lot of successful business moves and this is not one of them.
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