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Thanks to Apple Music, the music industry is finally making money on streaming
After almost two decades of relentless decline caused by piracy and falling prices, the music business…
Jimmy Iovine: Apple has no plans to buy Tidal or any other streaming music service
We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services…
Amazon, Pandora prep new music streaming services
Pandora is expected to make the first move by unveiling, perhaps as early as this week, an expanded version…
Stick a fork in ’em, Spotify and Pandora are done
Every new industry has a number of similar patterns which occur over time….
Apple Music complicating Spotify’s attempt to contract with all three major music labels
Spotify is out of contract with all three major music companies…
For music streamers, playlists becoming the new radio
Playlisting has become the fabric of the music streaming experience…
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…
Apple proposes simplified music licensing scheme to U.S. Copyright Royalty Board
This afternoon, Apple submitted a preliminary proposal to the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board…
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 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…
Largest shareholder urges beleaguered Pandora to sell the company
Beleaguered Pandora should hire an investment bank to help the company explore its strategic options including a sale….
Spotify follows Apple into original video content development
With a fresh $1 billion to burn, Swedish streaming upstart Spotify…
Taylor Swift dances like no one’s watching in new Apple Music ad
Taylor Swift dances like no one’s watching
Radiohead blackball Spotify as new album hits Apple Music
Thom Yorke just got his own back on Spotify. The Radiohead star has famously had some strong words to say about the Swedish streaming service…
Apple offers students half-price $4.99 Apple Music subscriptions starting today
Amid news that Apple Music is getting a makeover come this summer, Apple today launched a new plan…
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…
Taylor Swift’s Apple Music commercial spurred 431% jump in sales for Drake
Last week, Taylor Swift released a minute-long clip she filmed for Apple Music that featured her working out…
How Apple Music impressively scaled the music streaming charts
Apple Music is far more likely to succeed in the music streaming market than its competitors…
Apple’s iTunes Store suffers as streaming sales surpass digital downloads for first time
The Recording Industry Association of America has revealed that streaming music sales surpassed digital downloads…
Apple Music needs a web widget
Every now and then, on Facebook, someone shares a song or album from Spotify….
Pandora said to have held talks about selling the company
Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company…
Apple Music subscribers could hit 100 million users in 6 years
100 million paying Apple Music members would far outstrip what any streaming music service has accomplished so far…
Apple Music nabs 10 million subscribers in 6 months, which took Spotify 6 years
Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months…
In likely boon for Apple Music, Copyright Royalty Board raises rates on free music services
In news which could well be good for Apple Music, but bad for rival free streaming music services…
Analyst: Apple Music already has 8 million subscribers, will hit 20 million in 2016
Apple Music went from zero to the No.2 streaming service in a matter of months in mid-2015…
Apple waited too long to get into music streaming or something
Apple Music’s biggest problem is and will continue to be that millions and millions of people…
Super Bowl 50 halftime headliner Coldplay to withhold new album from Spotify, will be available on Apple Music
British rock band Coldplay will headline the halftime show at the National Football League’s Super Bowl 50…
