TIDAL Music AS
For audiophiles seeking lossless audio quality and independent musicians requiring real-time royalty management and financial transparency.
Known forTIDAL Music: HiFi Sound
For audiophiles seeking lossless audio quality and independent musicians requiring real-time royalty management and financial transparency.
Empowering music creators and listeners through high-fidelity streaming and transparent financial tools for the modern artist economy.
Target audience
Portfolio
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TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound
vVARY
2mo ago
Primary focus
High-fidelity music streaming and artist financial services
Scale
indie
Target audience
Audiophiles seeking lossless audio quality and independent musicians requiring real-time royalty management and financial transparency.
Origin
HIFI joined Block, Inc. to merge financial technology with TIDAL’s artist-centric streaming business.
The publisher maintains an intense development pace with 24 updates across its portfolio in the last 6 months and its flagship app updated within the last 2 days.
3 apps analysed
Offline and always ad-free - stream in the highest quality available.
TIDAL Connect hardware integration creates high switching costs
Offline and always ad-free - stream in the highest quality available.
TIDAL Connect hardware integration increases switching costs
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Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
2
Negative apps
35/100
Avg sentiment score
Directly targets the same high-fidelity, audiophile-focused demographic as TIDAL with a strong emphasis on editorial content.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
With nearly 40 million reviews and a massive, highly active user base, Spotify is the dominant market leader in the streaming music space.
A long-standing global streaming competitor that maintains a consistent feature set for general music listeners.
Deeply integrated into the iOS ecosystem, providing a frictionless experience for the majority of mobile users.
Leverages the massive Amazon Prime subscriber base to offer a low-friction, bundled music streaming experience.
Focuses on emerging artists and creator-driven content, serving a younger, discovery-oriented audience.
Serves the independent music niche, providing a direct-to-artist monetization model that differs from streaming.
High release velocity indicates an aggressive push to capture price-sensitive users through ad-supported downloads.
Represents the shift toward generative AI-driven music creation rather than passive consumption.
Capitalizes on the recent surge in AI-assisted creative tools to capture the attention of casual music fans.
