Will Tidal be the next music streaming service to drown?

The company bagged exclusives from Kanye West and Rihanna, who released the biggest albums of 2016, but it still has daunting challenges

Spotify beefed with Taylor Swift and got sued by songwriters; Apple messed with people’s iTunes collections and was accused of sexism; and Deezer abruptly cancelled plans to go public in 2015.

Yet it was another music streaming service that has been generating the most negative headlines over the past year: Tidal. The star power of its co-owners – Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Madonna and more – hasn’t spared it from criticism and derision.