Has Jay Z’s Tidal Been Inflating Subscriber Numbers?

Tidal Shift: Today’s news may not be music to Jay Z’s ears. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)

Insert joke about Jay Z having more than 99 Problems here: according to an in-depth report published today by Norwegian business paperDagens Naeringsliv,Jay Z’s Tidal has been inflating its subscriber totals.

In early 2015, Jay Z paid $56 million for the Oslo-basedstreaming service, which was publicly traded at the time. He relaunched Tidal that March in a much-ballyhooed public presentati...