Jay Z claims there is a 'multi-million dollar smear campaign' against his Tidal streaming app after 'delays by Apple hit downloads'
- Rapper says that his streaming service is 'here for the long haul'
- Report claims that app is being affected by delays from Apple, which is launching its own music service this summer
- Jay Z claims that Tidal already has more than 700,000 subscribers
- App purchasing data shows that it has fallen out of top 750 downloads
Jay Z launched a stream of tweets defending his premium music streaming app Tidal after the service, launched last month, was described as a flop.
His social media diatribe comes as reports claim that Tidal is being sabotaged by rivals as it attempts to take business away from more-established music outlets such as Spotify and Apple.
'We may not be perfect - but we are determined,' he said while claiming that there are 'many big companies that are spending millions on a smear campaign'.
'We are here for the long haul,' the rapper and businessman tweeted in a string of 'stream of consciousness' messages.
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Twitter rant: Jay Z unleashed a string of 'stream of consciousness' tweets on Sunday defending his premium music streaming service Tidal and saying that it is still early days for the app
Tidal tweets: Using the hashtag #TidalFacts, the rap mogul told naysayers that 'actions will speak louder than words' as he continues to fine tune the streaming service he purchased for $56 million in January
Equality for all: The rapper and businessman insisted that Tidal is good for all artists and not just a money-maker for the big name artists like Kanye, Rihanna and Madonna who have joined him as co-founders
Feeling the need to vent: Jay Z decided to take to social media on Sunday in an aggressive push after what he saw as a 'smear campaign' from big companies against Tidal
Jay Z, who paid $56 million for TIDAL's technology in January and relaunched it in March, went on the offensive against the supposed smear campaign.
Tidal has potential rivals including popular streaming service Spotify and tech giant Apple, though Jay Z did not post any details about the alleged campaign.
After Tidal was criticized because of the wealth of its founders, the rapper said that other big tech companies also have huge amounts of money.
'Rich getting richer? Equity values... YouTube $390 billion. Apple $760 billion. Spotify $8 billion. Tidal $60 million,' he said.
On Sunday Page Six claimed that there's also a 'war' looming between Tidal and Apple.
Citing industry sources, the New York Post's gossip site alleged that tech giant Apple is trying to impede Tidal ahead of the scheduled relaunch in June of its own Beats Music by taking a long time to approve iOS updates for the Tidal app.
'Tidal had a new app on Android on April 15, but still hasn’t received approval for Apple’s iOS app store,' a source said.
The site claimed that after Rihanna's song American Oxygen debuted on Tidal, there were technical problems with her music on iTunes.
Apple told Page Six that the allegations that Rihanna's songs were deliberately scrambled are not true.
The spokesperson declined to comment on the other claims made in the article, according to Page Six.
War looming: A report from Page Six on Sunday said that Apple, which is launching its own music service, is trying to stop any growth by Tidal by delaying availability of updates for its app
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