So How Influential are the TIDAL 16?

So I found this pretty interesting.

As we all know by now, Jay Z announced his model for TIDAL yesterday (March 30, 2015). His vision is to fairly compensate the artist by allowing a majority of the company to be owned by artists.

Stepping up to the plate to support him was of course wifey Beyonce, flagship artist Rihanna, Usher, Kanye West, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Calvin Harris, ColdPlay, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Daft Punk, deadmau5, Jason Aldean, Jack White and Arcade Fire. Impressive bunch right?

Well Billboard just did a breakdown of how impressive they are. Check out these stats.

Twitter Followers:

Alicia Keys – 21.46M
Arcade Fire – 771.7K
Beyonce – 13.9M
Calvin Harris – 5.7M
Coldplay – 14.4M
Deadmau5 – 3.1M
Jack White / Third Man Records: 121K
Jason Aldean – 2.71M
Kanye West – 11.8M
Madonna – 684K
Nicki Minaj – 19.1M
Jay Z – 3.12M
Rihanna – 43M
Usher – 10.2M
J Cole – 6.45M

U.S. Album Sales

Alicia Keys – 18.4M
Arcade Fire – 2.6M
Beyonce – 15.8M
Calvin Harris – 0.3M
Coldplay – 18.3M
Daft Punk – 3.3M
Deadmau5 – 1.1M
Jack White – 0.9M
Jason Aldean – 10.1M
Kanye West – 14.6M
Madonna – 53.2M* (SoundScan era = 28.2M // RIAA certs through May 1991 = 25M)
Nicki Minaj – 3.4M
Jay Z –35.6M
Rihanna – 10.3M
Usher – 23.8M
J Cole – 1.6M

U.S. Digital Song Sales

Alicia Keys – 21.9M
Arcade Fire – 3M
Beyonce – 46.2M
Calvin Harris – 11.4M
Coldplay – 33.8M
Daft Punk – 9.9M
Deadmau5 – 5M
Jack White – 1.3M
Jason Aldean – 32.3M
Kanye West – 45M
Madonna – 18.5M
Nicki Minaj – 29.8M
Jay Z – 49.2M
Rihanna – 75.9M
Usher – 38.2M
J Cole – 7.3M