If you're one of the 1 million current subscribers or among the hundreds of thousands of former free trial users of Tidal, you may want to take a peek at your bank account and make sure you haven't been charged $19.99, the price of one month of the service's high fidelity audio service.
During the last 24 hours, Jay Z's music streaming service has been falsely charging former users for the service and a writer with The Verge is among the victims.
Tidal soon after reimbursed the charges and sent an apologetic email to those effected, however things get a little mixed up from there.
The company also gifted those affected three months of Tidal Premium, which is Tidal's less-premium non-lossless/ hi-fi service for $9.99 a month equivalent to Spotify's similar service.
Initially, it looked like the service would be charging users for the service following the 3 month period, but it seems that was a mistake that was quickly alleviated.
It's kind of an odd gift given that these are users who specifically took the time to cancel their accounts and chose to go with another service, whether that is a paid subscription or a free option. Plus, if you want to try and convert these users back to Tidal, wouldn't you want to give them the better high quality sound?
Back in September, Jay Z tweeted that Tidal reached a landmark of 1 million users, which is the latest numbers the streaming service has reported since its launch. Meanwhile, Apple Music is boasting its recent milestone of 10 million subscribers and Spotify is hovering around 20 to 25 million paid subscribers with 70 million total users when including the free users.
"Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists" Tidal is platinum. 1,000,000 people and counting. Let's celebrate 10/20 Brooklyn.
— Mr. Carter (@S_C_) September 29, 2015
It's also recently come to light that Soundcloud will be moving forward on a paid subscription service after securing a deal with Universal Music Group. The music streaming wars look to be just as eventful in 2016 as they were in 2015.
