Recently, the album launched exclusively on Apple Music by Tidal, rose to the top of the charts. On the other hand, this previous week, the same artist faced a $5 million lawsuit. The case was filed against Tidal by John Emanuele, of The American Dollars band and also representing Yesh Music Publishing. According to the reports put forward on CNBC, Tidal has actually licensed a number of songs sung by the rock band, The American Dollars, without taking any permission from the later. According to the reports, the number of songs amount to a whopping 118. Moreover, Tidal had also deliberately skewed the track stream numbers, ordering millions. This particular case is looking for class action.
After the whole deal came into the light, many approached Tidal to get a statement. In a particular statement made by Tidal, he states that nothing was done wrong in this matter. Each and everything, starting from permission to making payments, all have been taken care of. He further stated that the payments details are not really known by the opposing plaintiffs. Moreover, Tidal also stated that the songs for which the opposing company filed a case were actually played and streamed only about 13000 times in the previous year.
Recently, after the case had been launched, Tidal had simply removed any song which was related to any of the two companies and or artists removed from the catalog. The original launch of the catalog in question was done way back in 2014, in the month of October. Later on, the album and the songs were bought by Jay Z from Tidal and re‐launched in the month of March, 2015. This was done keeping a new statement of mission in mind, which stated that the services will be much more artist friendly. Moreover, they offered to pay a relatively higher royalty amount than their competitors.
