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Tag: streaming music

Spotify hits 124 million subscribers, but reports loss of $231 million

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:31 amWednesday, February 5, 20209 Comments

Spotify hit 124 million subscribers at the end of 2019, up 29% from the previous year, the company reported Wednesday. However, tempering that…

U.S. music streams surpass one trillion milestone in 2019

Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:13 pm1 Comment

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 offers six months of Apple Music for free – if you do this

Friday, December 20, 2019 5:14 pm12 Comments

Here’s how to get six months worth of Apple Music for free this Christmas!

Spotify reports bigger-than-expected loss, paid subscribers disappoint

Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:27 pmWednesday, July 31, 20192 Comments

Spotify Technology SA’s lighter-than-expected number of new paid subscribers drove shares as much as 5% lower…

Spotify reaches 100 million subscribers worldwide, still losing money

Monday, April 29, 2019 6:31 pm10 Comments

Spotify now has 100 million paying users around the world, the company said…


Sonos speakers enable Apple Music voice control via Amazon’s Alexa

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:02 pmWednesday, April 17, 20191 Comment

Owners of Sonos speakers in the U.S. and U.K. can now use Alexa voice controls for Apple Music…

Apple is the real winner in Spotify’s battle against paying songwriters more

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:33 pmTuesday, April 9, 20198 Comments

Streaming giant Spotify, after years of attempting to woo the songwriting community, is now at the front of an effort to pay it less…

Apple Music comes to Amazon Alexa in the UK with new skill update

Thursday, April 4, 2019 1:02 pmNo Comments

Amazon has brought Apple Music to Alexa smart speakers for the first time in the UK…

Apple Music now available on Amazon Fire TV; Apple Music on Amazon Echo expanding to more countries

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:11 pmNo Comments

Apple Music is now available on the Amazon Fire TV…

Apple further opens walled garden’s gate: Apple Music soon to launch on Google Home speakers

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:03 pmTuesday, February 26, 20193 Comments

Apple Music is apparently coming to Google Home speakers, yet another sign…

New Apple Music web player looks like it came from Apple

Friday, January 18, 2019 1:34 pmFriday, January 18, 20191 Comment

Apple doesn’t offer an official Apple Music web player, but it does offer web APIs…

Jay-Z’s beleaguered Tidal under investigation over alleged streaming fraud

Monday, January 14, 2019 10:55 amMonday, January 14, 20195 Comments

Tidal, a subscription-based music and video streaming service owned by rapper Jay-Z…

Apple Music now leads Spotify in the U.S., the No. 1 recorded music market

Monday, December 31, 2018 12:07 pm4 Comments

Stockholm-based Spotify, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year…

Apple Music continues to take share from Spotify

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:34 am1 Comment

Apple’s ability to promote its own services like Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple Pay…

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s newest release highlights the extent of Apple Music’s disruption

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 4:01 pmTuesday, June 19, 20189 Comments

The Tidal high-fidelity music streaming service was suddenly the center of attention…

Tastemaker George Ergatoudis leaves Spotify to join Apple Music

Thursday, June 14, 2018 2:29 pmThursday, June 14, 201810 Comments

George Ergatoudis, one of the most influential tastemakers in the UK business, is leaving Spotify…

Apple revs up their own music publishing business

Thursday, June 14, 2018 2:02 pmThursday, June 14, 20189 Comments

Last week, Apple Music announced it was setting up a global music publishing division, raising eyebrows…

Apple Music poaches Radio 1Xtra editor Ryan Newman

Friday, June 8, 2018 2:00 pmFriday, June 8, 20181 Comment

Apple Music has hired one of BBC radio’s key editorial music executives in the UK…

Apple Music to shake things up with another new global division

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:01 pmThursday, June 14, 20182 Comments

A transformation is coming to the way that Apple reports streaming data…

Beleaguered Tidal music subscription service reportedly months behind on royalty payments

Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:27 pm4 Comments

Tidal’s struggles continue today as a new report claims the streaming music platform is months behin…

Tidal accused of deliberately inflating Kanye West’s and Beyoncé’s streaming numbers upon which royalties are paid

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 4:40 pmWednesday, May 9, 201822 Comments

Tidal is under fire once again for allegedly inflating its streaming numbers….

Apple launches Apple Music for Artists to track downloads, streams, and more

Monday, January 22, 2018 4:26 pmMonday, January 22, 20182 Comments

The easily navigable dashboard’s home page provides artists with their current number of…

Watch out Spotify and Apple Music, here comes Amazon

Monday, December 18, 2017 1:28 pmMonday, December 18, 201736 Comments

With the introduction of the Apple iPod in 2001…

Beleaguered Tidal subscription music service running out of cash, may close next year

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:04 am13 Comments

Lossless streaming music service Tidal is reported to be running out of cash..

Kanye West cuts ties with Tidal as Jay-Z’s latest album pops up on Apple Music

Friday, July 7, 2017 12:01 pmFriday, July 7, 201730 Comments

The same day that the Jay-Z album ‘4:44’ exits Tidal exclusivity, Kanye West, one of Tidal’s initial 16 artist-owners…

How long will Jimmy Iovine stay with Apple?

Thursday, July 6, 2017 10:00 am21 Comments

Talking to Iovine about his career and the energy that propelled his shifts from engineer to producer…

Tesla looks to create an Apple Music rival

Friday, June 23, 2017 4:28 pmFriday, June 23, 201721 Comments

Tesla is talking to the music industry about creating its own streaming music service…

Apple Music’s three-month trial is no longer free in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland

Sunday, May 21, 2017 12:44 pm1 Comment

Since launching in June 2015, Apple Music has offered a free three-month trial in the United States…

SiriusXM in talks to acquire Pandora

Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:19 amNo Comments

The two companies, while talking, remain in disagreement on value…

Pandora gets $150 million KKR investment; explores strategic alternatives, including sale

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:47 pm1 Comment

Pandora Media Inc. said on Monday that the company is exploring strategic alternatives, including a sale…

Apple Music is coming to Facebook Messenger

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:45 pmTuesday, April 18, 20173 Comments

Apple will be introducing an Apple Music chat extension to Facebook Messenger…

Spotify tests lossless streaming; Apple Music next?

Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:55 amThursday, March 2, 201715 Comments

Reports suggest that Spotify is A/B testing a new lossless option on some users…

Jimmy Iovine on Apple Music: ‘The stuff we’re creating I don’t think anyone is gonna see coming’

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 1:55 pmTuesday, September 27, 201635 Comments

For music streaming services, which rely on a delicate web of relationships with the artists, publishers, and record labels…

iTunes may be bad, but years and years of it are what’s making Apple Music so good

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 1:14 pm8 Comments

Playlists, playlists, playlists. Every major music streaming service these days is touting the originality…

Thanks to Apple Music, the music industry is finally making money on streaming

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:44 pmTuesday, September 20, 20167 Comments

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

Thursday, September 15, 2016 4:55 pmThursday, September 15, 201612 Comments

We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services…

Kanye West tries to goad Apple CEO Tim Cook to buy Tidal

Monday, August 1, 2016 2:26 pmMonday, August 1, 201619 Comments

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

Sunday, July 31, 2016 1:41 pmMonday, August 1, 201649 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:00 pmTuesday, July 5, 20163 Comments

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’

Friday, July 1, 2016 4:27 pm7 Comments

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

Friday, July 1, 2016 3:28 pmTuesday, July 5, 201612 Comments

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’

Friday, July 1, 2016 2:27 pmFriday, July 1, 201618 Comments

Last year, when Apple launched its streaming service Apple Music, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon…

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