In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted…
Tag: streaming music
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…
When ‘No Longer Available’ strikes your iCloud Music Library
Record labels and artists are free to choose whether to allow their music to be available on streaming services…
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 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…
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…
Uh-oh, Spotify: People are paying up for Apple Music
At current the current rate, Apple Music could surpass Spotify’s paid subscriber base within a year…
Why Apple Music will win in streaming music
Some experts in the streaming music industry insisted that the world’s most valuable company wouldn’t win over listeners just because it was Apple…
Apple Music takes a huge bite out of Pandora
hares of Pandora Media have been utterly decimated, down by as much as 40% at the low…
44 million people listened to Apple Music in July
According to a new ComScore report, Apple Music is certainly catching the attention of users…
Apple PR comes out swinging in defense of Apple Music
Apple was very quick to respond Tuesday to a press release about a MusicWatch survey…
Apple: 79 percent of those who signed up for Apple Music are still using it
79 percent of users who have signed up for Apple Music are still using the service…
Study: 11 percent of iOS users currently listen to Apple Music
Although 77 percent of Apple’s iOS users in the United States are aware of Apple Music, only 11 percent are using it…
In wake of Apple Music launch, Rdio adds hundreds of terrestrial radio stations
The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look…
Apple Music ads appear worldwide as Billboard adds Apple Music to charts
Apple has kicked off a worldwide advertising campaign for its new streaming music service…
Oh ok, Apple Music already has over 10 million subscribers in just four weeks
The rights holders are surprised by how big the Apple Music subscription figures already are…
Oh ok, Spotify listeners are upgrading to Apple Music
Put it down to the service’s 90-day ‘pay nothing’ trial…
Apple creating original music videos for top artists for Apple Music
The launch of Apple Music hasn’t only included a new radio station…
Spotify urges subscribers to stop paying through Apple’s App Store
Spotify is trying to raise awareness around the fact that it’s cheaper…
Oh ok, Spotify: Apple’s iOS 8.4 adoption already at 37 percent
Just a week after its release, the iOS 8.4 update has already been adopted…
A quick tour of iOS 8.4’s new Music app and the Apple Music setup process
iOS 8.4 is here, and aside from fixing a few nasty bugs…
Apple releases iOS 8.4 with Apple Music
Apple has just released the iOS 8.4 software update…
High expectations greet Apple Music debut
Until now, there have been two players in subscription music:…
