The 1st fraud accusation first surfaced in 2018, when a sleuthing reporter Dagens Næringsliv discovered stream manipulation on two Tidal albums: Kanye West’s Life of Pablo and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.
Dagens initially secured a TIDAL hard drive, then cross-matched that data against other sources, before declaring that streams for both albums had been grossly inflated. In total, the two albums were allegedly padded with more than 320 million ‘fake streams,’ according to the finding.