Jay Z And Madonna's Tidal Reported To The Police For Falsifying Music Streaming Sales

May 16. 2018

Madonna and Jay Z's failed music streaming company Tidal is in hot water. Tono, the music rights organization for songwriters and composers in Norway, has filed a police complaint against Tidal, stating the company is falsifying music streams of founding members such as Jay Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Kanye West, while underpaying lesser known artists who do not have a financial stake in the company.

The criminal complaint to the Norwegian police department's economic crime unit Økokrim is also a precursor to a lawsuit. Lawsuits have also been filed in America against Tidal for cheating artists out of royalties, by sending them fraudulent statements understating the number of times their music was streamed by the company. Tidal was just another way for them to rip off other artists and the public.

This type of behavior is right up Jay Z and Madonna's ally. Prior to these complaints and lawsuits, the two have been sued by many people, including me, for theft of songs and royalties (Jay Z And Madonna's Floundering Tidal Sued For $5,000,000 Over Copyright Infringement In Not Paying Artists While Inflating Their Own Sales To Go Number One On Billboard). Jay Z, Madonna, Beyonce and Rihanna, founding members of Tidal, are not real businesspeople. They are thieving frauds criminally stealing from others to live the high life. They are complete hype jobs who refuse to follow the law.

They are all in the Kabbalah cult, a Hollywood sect that has been exposed in Newsweek and the New York Post as an organized crime outfit. They can continue with the criminal behavior and see how it's going to turn out (sarcasm). I heard from one of my sources that the government wants to indict one of them in that cult shortly, as a jumping off point and warning shot, as they're tired of them going all over the globe embarrassing the country with acts of criminal fraud. Thus far they have gone into Britain, Ireland, Australia, Norway, Jamaica, Canada and Portugal engaging in criminal behavior, which has defrauded locals.

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Tono reports Tidal to the police

May 15, 2018 - Songwriters are fuming and the organization charged with taking care of their rights has now gone to the police, filing a formal complaint over how music streaming platform Tidal has allegedly manipulated its numbers for listening sessions. Not only has that allegedly inflated sessions and payments for top artists linked to Tidal’s owner, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, it may have reduced payments made to others.

Cato Strøm, the director of the organization for Norwegian songwriters and composers Tono, told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) that it has filed a complaint with the Norwegian police’s economic crime unit Økokrim. The complaint comes after DN reported on Tidal’s alleged manipulation of 320 million false listening sessions.

Tidal has denied any manipulation of the huge numbers attributed to artists Kanye West and Beyoncé, who’s married to Jay-Z, but has as yet failed to produce evidence to counter that presented in DN from experts at the Norwegian university NTNU. Strøm told DN that Tono also has tried to get answers from Tidal, to address its artists’ concerns, but has been met with silence.

“We’re surprised that Tidal has not come forward and given us an explanation of what came out in DN last week,” Strøm said, adding that DN‘s information “sent shockwaves through the music branch.” Many artists who spread their music via Tidal’s platform have also begun withdrawing it. Another artists’ organization, Gramart, has also demanded an independent audit of Tidal, which is rooted in the former Norwegian streaming service known as Wimp.

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Criminal Complaints And Industry Investigations Target Tidal

May 14, 20181:58 PM ET - The streaming platform Tidal, whose most public owner and champion is rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z, is facing heavy criticism and possible legal action from several Scandinavian artist organizations and other entities after a Norwegian business newspaper alleged last week that the company had faked hundreds of millions of plays on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Kanye West's The Life of Pablo.

That paper, Dagens Naeringsliv (DN), published its original findings on May 9. DN says it was surreptitiously given hard drive that contained internal Tidal play data, and worked with researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who analyzed the hard drive logs. A lawyer for Tidal named Jordan W. Siev told the Norwegian paper that he believes the data was stolen, and that "DN exhibits complete lack of understanding of the data." Moreover, Tidal denies that any play data has been manipulated, or that any royalty structures have changed.

On Monday, a team of DN journalists published a trio of follow-up stories. In one of those reports, DN purports to show that in the past year, Tidal has lowered payments to labels from 62.5 percent to 55 percent, without renegotiating terms. (The company has, since launching, billed itself as the streaming platform that pays the most to creators; DN says that a 55 percent payout puts Tidal on equal footing with Spotify and Apple Music's terms.) Daniel Nordgård, the chair of GramArt, the Norwegian musicians' association, called the situation "a complete breach of trust."...

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