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Spotify hits 124 million subscribers, but reports loss of $231 million
Spotify hit 124 million subscribers at the end of 2019, up 29% from the previous year, the company reported Wednesday. However, tempering that…
Genius’ ‘Verified’ series to explore song lyrics for Apple Music
Genius, one of the leading collections of song lyrics. Now, the series Verified, featuring top artists breaking down their lyrics, is coming to Apple Music …
Amazon Music subscribers surpass 55 million globally
Amazon said on Wednesday that its music streaming service had over 55 million subscribers globally with subscriptions to Amazon Music Unlimited growing …
Apple’s Services can hit $100 billion in annual revenue by 2024 – analyst
Apple’s annual revenue for their Services category, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+ iTunes Store, Appel TV+, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and more…
Apple Music and the NBA ink partnership deal
Apple and the NBA have announced a partnership that includes an Apple Music playlist featuring tracks that will be used in game highlights…
Does ‘Disliking’ music on Apple Music actually do anything?
I would expect that telling Apple Music what I “love” and what I don’t like will have some effect on my recommendations…
College students get half off Apple Music and Apple TV+ included for free
College students get half off Apple Music and free Apple TV+. That’s tens of millions of songs, always ad-free, along with free Apple TV+. All for just $4.99/month…
Apple now accepting donations to aid Australian bushfire relief
Apple is launching a donation campaign in partnership with the Red Cross to help with efforts in Australia to fight widespread, devastating bushfires…
U.S. music streams surpass one trillion milestone in 2019
On-demand streams grew were up 24.8 percent from 2018 to 1.01 trillion. Streaming on services like Apple Music saw the biggest boot, as on demand audio streams grew 32 percent to 706 billion…
Apple rings in new era of Services as App Store sales hit Christmas week record
App Store customers spent a record $1.42 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, a 16 percent increase over last year, and $386 million on New Year’s Day 2020 alone, a 20 percent increase over last year and a new single-day record…
Jimmy Iovine on what’s wrong with music streaming
In a series of conversations in December, Iovine spoke about his career transition from the studio to the halls of Cupertino…
What the death of Apple’s iTunes says about our digital habits
One of the great cultural events of the 2010s was the slow abandonment and ultimate death of iTunes…
Apple offers six months of Apple Music for free – if you do this
Here’s how to get six months worth of Apple Music for free this Christmas!
Apple Retail Store employees to get Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade for free
Apple is set to give its retail employees a services perk for the new year…
Mossberg: Tim Cook’s Apple had a great decade, but no new blockbusters
In the past decade, Apple has grown huge. Its fiscal 2019 revenues were six times the size of revenues in fiscal 2009….
Introducing MusicBot: The all-in-one Apple Music assistant, powered by Shortcuts
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a shortcut designed to be the ultimate assistant for Apple Music…
Must See Video: Music producers put Apple’s all-new Mac Pro to the test with Logic Pro X
The all-new Mac Pro (28-cores) with Logic Pro X, over a hundred tracks, hundreds of plugins, and casually creating a song from start to finish…
Apple Music Awards to be streamed live tonight with a bespoke performance from Billie Eilish at the Steve Jobs Theater
Apple Music will celebrate the inaugural Apple Music Awards with a bespoke performance from Billie Eilish…
Apple debuts first ever Apple Music Awards; Billie Eilish takes top honor as Global Artist of the Year
In a symbolic gesture, the same chips which power the devices that put the world’s music at your fingertips sit at the very heart of the Apple Music Awards…
Consumer survey shows Apple in catbird seat this holiday shopping season
Among the half (49%) of the U.S. population that plans to shop during Black Friday Week (Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday), 82% of those shoppers plan to buy tech devices and accessories…
Canceling iTunes Match? Download your iCloud Music Library first
In the current world order, iTunes Match enables what Apple calls iCloud Music Library, but you can also use Apple Music to enable iCloud Music Library…
Apple Music expands into retailers, restaurants; now providing soundtracks for Harrods, Levi Strauss, and more
Apple Music is getting into the business of music for business….
Apple looking for engineers to build the ‘next generation of media apps for Windows’
Earlier this year, Apple killed off iTunes on macOS, breaking it up into three different apps: Podcasts, Music, and Apple TV….
Amazon takes on Spotify with new ad-supported free music streaming service
Amazon offers paid plans for its music service starting at $9.99 per month and it is also part of its prime bundle…
Shazam’s user base grew by over 78 million users after Apple acquisition
After its acquisition by Apple, Shazam increased its user base by over 78 million users in 2018…
Where Apple Music’s headed in 2020: More radio, more live content
Beats 1 went on air in 2015 and is accessible round the clock through iTunes and Apple Music…
Goodbye, iTunes: Once-revolutionary app gone in macOS Catalina
It’s time to bid farewell to iTunes, the once-revolutionary program that made online music sales mainstream and effectively blunted the impact of piracy…
Apple mulls offering a ‘super bundle’ of Apple Music and Apple TV+
Apple’s hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous about the prospect of offering their music for a lower price.
U.S. Congress asks Spotify to detail alleged Apple antitrust abuses
U.S. lawmakers have requested information from Apple critic Spotify as part of an antitrust probe…
Amazon Music HD launches with high quality, lossless audio
Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses,” said rock icon Neil Young…
Apple wins Creative Arts Emmy Award
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards honor outstanding artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television program genres, guest performances in weekly series, as well as exceptional work in the animation, reality and documentary categories…
How long before we get a $100 ‘Everything Apple’ subscription including an iPhone?
If you suspect Apple is heading toward offering us a single all-in subscription package, the company’s moves this week regarding Apple TV+ and, more quietly, AppleCare+, make a lot of sense…
The iPhone and Apple’s services strategy
The success of the iPhone XR strongly suggests that there is more elasticity in the iPhone market than ever before…
Apple surprises with aggressive device and services pricing
Apple Inc.’s biggest surprise at its keynote address on Tuesday was not a new feature, device, or service, but an aggressive pricing strategy…
U.S. music revenue surges as streaming subscriptions soar
Revenues are up 18% to $5.4 billion and streaming accounts for 80% of that revenue, according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s mid-year report…
Apple launches all-new Apple Music web app, now in public beta
Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide…
Apple Music launches new curated playlist ‘New Music Daily’
Updated every day with fresh songs, Apple Music today launched a new curated playlist called “New Music Daily.”
Apple Music launches ‘Shazam Discovery Top 50’ chart
The chart, which chronicles breaking artists, will be updated every Tuesday and is exclusively available to stream on Apple Music…
The fate of Apple’s iTunes Store in macOS Catalina
With the new Music app in macOS Catalina, which retains most of the music functions of iTunes…
Porsche to stream Apple Music into all-new Taycan EV
Luxury automaker Porsche and Apple are teaming up to allow drivers of the all-new, all-electric Porsche Taycan to stream Apple Music directly into the car…
Hands-on with Apple’s major CarPlay update coming soon in iOS 13
Coming in iOS 13 is Apple’s most thorough update to Apple CarPlay yet, with revised aesthetics and important new features…
