Instead of going head-to-head with behemoths like Spotify, TIDAL’s new owner, Jack Dorsey’s Block, with Jay-Z’s involvement, is building the equivalent of Cash App for emerging artists.

Jack White wants you to pay for Tidal because rich people need money too by T.C. Sottek Source Third Man Records | Via Stereogum May 20, 2015, 12:54 PM PDT Leon Halip/Getty Images ...

The company is also announcing new ways to pay artists. In a press release, Tidal announced a new free tier that is exclusively available in the United States for now.

Jay Z and Tidal Are Reportedly Facing a Lawsuit Over Failing To Pay Artist Royalties (UPDATE) The lawsuit is for $5 million.

TIDAL, by contrast, has promised to pay double the standard streaming royalties, a promise it confirmed with The Verge this afternoon.

Tidal and many independent music distributors teamed up recently to introduce a direct artist payments system. These partnerships foreshadow a larger pivot from Tidal toward experimenting with ...

There is one extra perk, however. Users who do pay for Tidal’s HiFi Plus tier will be able to join the company’s new early access list.

Tidal High Fidelity members pay $19.99 a month and a whopping $9.99 for every new person that joins the account. Plus, Tidal only allows five members on the same account, as opposed to Apple Music ...

Additionally, Tidal’s message of “we pay everyone involved in the music creation process more” just didn’t jibe well with the company’s decision to put extremely well-known and already ...

After basking in recent somewhat-successful releases from Rihanna and Kanye West, kinda, Tidal is still not catching any breaks. Yesh Music (yes, Yesh) has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the ...

Would you pay $240 a year for streaming music? Jay Z would like to convince you to.

UPDATE: Tidal just issued a statement to Complex about the lawsuit and said that they are up to date on all royalties owed to Yesh Music, LLC.