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…
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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..
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 Music now works with Sonos speakers
Sonos just released an app update for iOS and Android that lets users stream albums, songs, playlists, and Beats 1 radio…
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…
Is Apple Music a total failure?
The news that Apple’s new streaming service, Apple Music, has only acquired 6.5 million paying subscribers since its summer launch strikes me as a pretty inauspicious start…
Older people are more likely to pay for Apple Music
So far, older listeners are the most likely to stick with Apple Music…
Can Apple’s Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre save the music industry?
Jimmy Iovine has a line he likes to use…
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…
Spotify urges subscribers to stop paying through Apple’s App Store
Spotify is trying to raise awareness around the fact that it’s cheaper…
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…
To understand why Apple bought Beats, you need to understand Lady Gaga
Headphone sales? Music streaming service? Wearables? Music label deals?
Apple’s Beats acquisition may prove to be a huge money maker
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics isn’t a sexy acquisition…
Two reasons why Apple shouldn’t buy Beats
It’s difficult to determine whether this is a good deal for Apple and its investors
Ben Thompson on possible Beats buy: Is Apple losing what makes Apple, Apple?
If you look back over the history of technology, there have been four epochs…
Nolan Bushnell: Beats is a ‘good deal for Apple,’ but it says Apple is ‘not an innovative tech company’
Post-Steve Jobs, it is just a different kind of company…
Beats Music is actually so good that I’m worried about Apple ruining it
Apple: please don’t ruin Beats Music…
Apple could become most powerful record label in the world with Dr Dre, Jimmy Iovine onboard
This won’t be the first time someone suggested Apple could start its own record label…
