Will Page Will Page Will Page is the Director of Economics at Spotify, a Swedish based digital music service. To date, Spotify has launched in 57 countries around the world and recently announced that it has reached 40 million active users and over 10 million paying subscribers. For six years he was the Chief Economist at the PRS for Music, a non-profit collection society representing writers, composers and music publishers in the UK. Page graduated with an MSc in Economics at the University of Edinburgh in 2002. His Masters thesis ‘Germany's Mezzogiorno Revisited’ looked at the problems facing East Germany ten years
Tidal (service) publicly announced by Tidal and its owners, having only 350,000 users in September 2015 (contradicting a claim by Jay-Z that the service had a million users), and 850,000 subscribers by March 2016, rather than the 3 million claimed by the service (which may have been inflated by including users that were using a free trial). In May 2018, "Dagens Næringsliv" published a report accusing Tidal of intentionally falsifying streaming numbers for Beyoncé's "Lemonade" and Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" albums and consequently paying inflated royalties to the artists' record labels. The newspaper supported its report with a comprehensive study