Apparently Taylor Swift has shaken it off, forgotten her bad blood, and is getting back together with a few of her famous exes, including Spotify and Pandora.
Apple Music executive and record industry mogul Jimmy Iovine recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Music Business Worldwide, reflecting upon his desire for more people to start paying for music.
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...
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...
Ominfone, born more than ten years ago in the UK, was in the business of building streaming music services for the likes of Blackberry, Sony, and HP. It was one of the first companies to launch an unlimited streaming service and among the first to fail. Now, according to a new report from TechCrunch, Apple...
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, 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,...