music streaming

Apple Music Hits 20 Million Paying Subscribers

Apple’s Music streaming service has reached 20 million paid subscribers, half as many users as its main rival, Spotify. Much of that growth has relied on exclusive content deals. This number is an increase of 15% in the last 3 months, as Apple Music is now receiving a million subscribers per month, according to a new...

Spotify May Be Killing Your SSD With Excessive Data Writes

For the past five months, the Spotify music streaming app for Mac, Windows, and Linux “has been assaulting users’ storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans.” More troublesome: the issue occurs even when the Spotify app is idle and isn’t storing any songs locally, according to Ars Technica. According...

Apple Considering Apple Music Price Cut by 20% [REPORT]

Apple Music, the company's music streaming service, has been around a little over a year now. Although the service competes directly with other streaming services such as, Tidal, and Amazon Prime, its user base (at 17 million) is rather low in comparison to Spotify's 30 million. Moreover, Apple Music's membership prices have been on par...

SoundCloud Launches ‘Go’ Streaming Service In Canada

SoundCloud, the massively-popular audio distribution and streaming service, is now offering its licensed paid-for-music subscription service to Canada. After launching SoundCloud Go, the company's subscription service, in the United States earlier this year, the company has today, delivered the service to Canadian customers. The service, which first rolled out last May in the United States,...