Aspiro: Jay-Z's Tidal gets the thumbs-up from Taylor Swift, T-Mobile

Earlier this month, Shawn Carter (a.k.a. Jay Z) bought lossless music-streaming service Tidal--as part of a $56 million acquisition of Swedish company Aspiro--and the platform already finds itself in a sea of activity. Taylor Swift has made her back catalog available to Tidal subscribers, each of whom currently pays $20 per month to access more than 25 million tracks in the 16-bit FLAC format at a bit rate of 1,411Kbps.