Spotify hit 124 million subscribers at the end of 2019, up 29% from the previous year, the company reported Wednesday. However, tempering that…
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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…
Spotify reports bigger-than-expected loss, paid subscribers disappoint
Spotify Technology SA’s lighter-than-expected number of new paid subscribers drove shares as much as 5% lower…
Apple Music may be coming to Google Home devices
Apple Music may be soon be available as an option on Google Home devices…
Amazon has record-breaking holiday season with more items ordered worldwide than ever before
Amazon customers shopped at record levels from a wide selection of products across every department…
Apple Music now available on Amazon Echo speakers via Alexa in the U.S.
Apple Music support on Amazon Echo speakers is starting to roll out in the United States…
Apple Music now has 56 million subscribers as Cupertino considers taking stake in iHeartMedia; HomePod sales notch best week since launch
After a slow start in streaming, music industry executives say Apple is gaining confidence…
Apple Music comes to Amazon Echo smart speakers starting December 17th
Apple Music subscribers will be able to enjoy Apple Music’s 50 million songs on Echo devices…
Apple in preliminary talks to take stake in U.S. radio company iHeartMedia
The discussions between the two companies remain at a preliminary stage and no deal has been agreed…
Apple Music’s Beats 1 opens NYC studio
After opening branches in London and Los Angeles, Apple has opened a New York studio for its Beats 1 crew…
Tim Cook worries that humanity is ‘being drained out of music’
We worry about the humanity being drained out of music, about it becoming…
Beleaguered Tidal subscription music service running out of cash, may close next year
Lossless streaming music service Tidal is reported to be running out of cash..
Apple Music now has well over 30 million paying subscribers
I don’t believe that what exists right now is enough…
Kanye West cuts ties with Tidal as Jay-Z’s latest album pops up on Apple Music
The same day that the Jay-Z album ‘4:44’ exits Tidal exclusivity, Kanye West, one of Tidal’s initial 16 artist-owners…
Watch, listen to, and laugh with Apple Music’s Beats 1 guru Zane Lowe as he gives SXSW 2017 music keynote
A New Zealand-born radio DJ, Live DJ, record producer, and television presenter, Zane Lowe…
Apple Music’s first exclusive documentary is a paean to Roland’s legendary TR-808
The first documentary from Apple has finally arrived — and it has nothing to do with iPhones or Macs…
Apple’s Jimmy Iovine: Here’s what we’re building
With Apple Music’s recent redesign and its continuing foray into exclusives, both in audio streams and now its latest push into video…
Jimmy Iovine: Apple has no plans to buy Tidal or any other streaming music service
We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services…
Kanye West tries to goad Apple CEO Tim Cook to buy Tidal
Taking a break from his social media spat with pop singer Taylor Swift, rapper Kanye West this weekend…
Kanye West calls for Apple to buy Tidal, demands executive meeting
Rapper Kanye West in a minor tweet storm on Saturday called on Apple to purchase Apple Music competitor Tidal…
YouTube’s music streaming takes a beating from Apple Music, Spotify, others
YouTube is no longer the biggest music streaming game in town…
Apple blasts Spotify for ‘resorting to rumors and half-truths, asking for preferential treatment’
In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted…
Apple buying Tidal would be a very savvy move
Investor sentiment in Apple this morning has been that they have made or are making a poor move in shooting to acquire…
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon: Apple Music is ‘literally a horrid platform’
Last year, when Apple launched its streaming service Apple Music, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon…
Why the heck would Apple want to buy Jay Z’s Tidal?
Apple is in talks to buy Tidal, the streaming music service purchased…
Why Apple buying Jay Z’s Tidal makes sense – and why it doesn’t
Apple is apparently in exploratory talks to acquire Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal…
Desperate Spotify tries to manufacture an Apple App Store antitrust issue that does not exist
Spotify’s general counsel Horacio Gutierrez — who used to be Microsoft’s second-highest-ranking in-house lawyer…
Spotify accuses Apple of ‘grave harm’
Spotify says Apple is making it harder for the streaming music company to compete by blocking…
Happy first birthday, Apple Music!
As Apple Music marks its first anniversary, it does so with no free tier, a host of big-name exclusives and…
Apple Music turns one year old, already has half as many paying members as Spotify
Streaming service Spotify leads the on-demand music business today, but it is increasingly facing challenges…
Apple Music preparing to launch in South Korea
Apple’s popular music streaming service Apple Music is preparing to launch its service in Korea…
Apple Music accumulating subscribers much more quickly than Spotify or Pandora
When Spotify and Pandora were starting their streaming services many were quick to point out…
Taylor Swift and the music industry wage war on Google’s YouTube, take fight to U.S. Congress
Taylor Swift and many in the music industry are officially taking their bad blood with Google’s YouTube to Congress…
Apple Music’s Iovine, Reznor, Cue and Kondrk on streaming’s new world order and why ‘we all should be’ worried
Twelve months of Apple Music have brought the service 15 million paid subscribers and, for its architects…
Apple Music will get a makeover, but it needs much more
Last year, Apple finally got into the subscription music business…
Dalrymple: Lessons I hope Apple’s learned from last year’s Apple Music introduction
Apple is planning a major revamp of Apple Music at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June. This is welcome news for sure…
Will Apple stock benefit from sweeping changes to Apple Music?
pple plans to update Apple Music after the music streaming service received mixed reviews…
Trent Reznor is the perfect person to overhaul Apple Music
Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame, will help ‘oversee’ a completely overhauled version of Apple Music…
Apple Music’s iOS 10 revamp to offer simpler UI, ‘huge artwork,’ and more
Nearly a year after Apple Music’s debut, Apple is preparing to announce its streaming music service’s first end-to-end overhaul…
Apple preps sweeping changes to Apple Music
Apple Inc. is planning sweeping changes to its year-old music streaming service after the first iteration of the product…
Spotify dims as Apple Music shines
Apple Music subscriptions have surpassed the 13 million mark, up from the 11 million announced two months ago…
New Drake album to be exclusively available on Apple Music
Hip-hop artist Drake has some bad news for streaming-music service Spotify…
