Who owns TIDAL?
TIDAL is owned by Block (the United States, NYSE: XYZ), which has owned the brand since 30 April 2021.[1]
Evidence: Block, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Block, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Oakland, California
- Origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway, Oslo
- Founded
- 2014
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming audio
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: XYZ
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About TIDAL
TIDAL is a music streaming service built around lossless audio and higher artist payouts, relaunched in 2015 by Jay-Z and a group of musicians. Block acquired a majority stake in 2021, an acquisition widely regarded as difficult to explain. Its launch event, at which a row of famous musicians signed a declaration on stage, was widely mocked, and the service has never come close to Spotify or Apple Music in scale.
What Block's annual report says about TIDAL
Sentences about TIDAL from Block's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
TIDAL is a global platform for musicians and their fans that uses unique content, experiences, and features to bring fans closer to artists and to provide artists with tools to succeed as entrepreneurs.
TIDAL offers an extensive catalog of more than 250 million songs and 1,000,000 high-quality videos.
TIDAL has a global presence with listeners in more than 60 countries and relationships with nearly 300 labels and distributors. 4 Bitcoin Ecosystem Our bitcoin ecosystem includes our bitcoin hardware projects, which include Bitkey, which is a self-custody bitcoin wallet, Proto, which is a bitcoin mining system, as well as Spiral, an independent team focused on contributing to bitcoin open source work.
How often Block names TIDAL in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of TIDAL
Where TIDAL sits in Block
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Block
Block controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in streaming audio, and who owns them
The 20 brands in streaming audio on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Storytel, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Audiobooks.com | Storytel | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Kugou Music | Tencent Music | 🇨🇳 China |
| Deezer | Deezer | 🇫🇷 France |
| LiveOne | LiveOne | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Spotify | Spotify | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Apple Music | Apple | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Melon | Kakao | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| NetEase Cloud Music | NetEase | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
About the owner: Block
Block is a publicly listed company headquartered in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 2009. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: XYZ.
Block was called Square until 2021 and was founded by Jack Dorsey, who was simultaneously running Twitter. It started by making a card reader that plugged into a phone headphone socket, which let market stalls and small traders take cards for the first time.
🇳🇴 TIDAL and other Norwegian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 63 brands that began in Norway. 18 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, TIDAL among them.
- MiniPay — Kunlun Tech 🇨🇳
- Penger.no — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- Awilco LNG — Awilco LNG 🇳🇴
- Byggmakker — Kesko 🇫🇮
- Color Line — Color Line 🇳🇴
- Diplom-Is — TINE 🇳🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of TIDAL?
The parent company of TIDAL is Block, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is TIDAL Norwegian or American?
TIDAL originated in Norway in 2014, but it is owned today by Block, which is headquartered in the United States. So TIDAL is a Norwegian-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Block owned TIDAL?
Block has owned TIDAL since 30 April 2021.
Is TIDAL still owned by Block?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, TIDAL is still owned by Block. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Block, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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