So this is getting interesting fast. The Norwegian collecting society Tono has filed an official police complaint against Tidal over those allegations published in Dagens Næringsliv last week. The Norwegian business newspaper alleged that Tidal skewed the streaming stats in relation to Kanye West’s ‘Life Of Pablo’ and Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’, two records with which it enjoyed exclusives.
Following chatter to the effect that the official number of plays for those albums in the weeks after release seemed very high, given the size of Tidal’s userbase, DN got its hands on some internal data from the streaming company.