Spotify a customer base of one million paying subscribers across Europe, and by September 2011, the number of paying subscribers had doubled to two million. In August 2012, "Time" reported 15 million active users, four million being paying Spotify subscribers. User growth continued, reaching 20 million total active users, including 5 million paying customers globally and 1 million paying customers in the United States, in December 2012. By March 2013, the service had 24 million active users, 6 million being paying subscribers, which grew to 40 million users (including 10 million paying) in May 2014, 60 million users (including 15 million
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