I agree with Bajan's last posts I really asked because I haven't seen anything so far, from an official source, confirmin that they count but yeah: it makes sense that if Tidal streams don't count towards the Billboard charts, they will soon.
You can't blame them considering how badly it was introduced.
Most don't know about how artist are getting higher royalties and I'm not talking about mainstream artist but the smaller ones who need it or the songwriters and the other part of the ecosystem that help created a Rihanna album.
They should have spoke about the ideas they have.. like apparently Win from Arcade Fire has something in plan to help indie artist get discovered more easily and Jay has an idea about how to show us more BTS on how an album is actually made. I'm sure the others have great idea but Tidal was presented has "Hey look at us! We bought a streaming company!!!!!"
Part of it is presentation. They're trying to sell it as innovative without saying what exactly is new about it. They're pushing it as something done out of concern for artists and royalties but they haven't explained how exactly they are going to address those issues spotify faces (writers and artists getting small percentages due to having to split money with labels) so it seems like they're trying to prey on people's emotions and concern for those poor starving indie artists while just trying to stuff their own pockets.
I wonder if this can actually go top 10 next week, Its doing better on sales and radio than most people thought, and it has the live performance video that counts for streaming, its hard to tell how well thats doing though
I'm seriously starting to think R8 will be a visual album, and the videos will be exclusively released on Tidal.
She recorded 45S, American Oxygen and the Paris videos with her fans ALL 15 weeks ago (You can see that by searching her 15 week-old instagram photos). Also, she apparently has already shot the #BBHMM video.
