Music

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Kerry Drew on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about streaming music services. Continue Reading →

Spotify recently announced a major milestone: the music streaming service hit 10 million paying subscribers and now has more than 40 million active users across 56 markets worldwide. Since Spotify launched in 2008, more than 12 billion hours of music have been streamed. The most streamed artist? Eminem. (Rihanna is the most streamed female artist.) Continue Reading →

Why would Apple buy Beats when it could just evolve iTunes into a streaming music service? Well, it wants the talent of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. But according to a source with direct knowledge of iTunes’ executive strategy, by buying and operating an external streaming service like Beats, Apple can coin off a smooth Continue Reading →

A Samsung executive had already warned us that the Korean firm may close its content hubs, and that’s exactly what’s happening as Samsung Music (aka Music Hub) will shut down on July 1. An email to Samsung Music users explained that the service “will no longer be available” from July and told people to await Continue Reading →

Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer can activate your phone’s microphone, recognize a TV show you’re watching or song you’re listening to, and tag it in your News Feed post. Friends can then Continue Reading →

Spotify announced on Wednesday that its music streaming service has hit a new milestone of 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users in 56 countries across the world, since its launch six years ago in 2008. The company says users have created more than 1.5 billion playlists since then, and currently create or Continue Reading →

Spotify dominates the market for music streaming services for consumers. Now a new startup, started by Spotify’s ex-head of business development Andreas Liffgarden and co-founder of Beats Music Ola Sars — and backed by Spotify itself — wants to transform that same music platform into a B2B service. Soundtrack Your Brand plans to sell Spotify Continue Reading →

Twitter may try to buy its way out of its growth problem by making another move into music. The company is considering a deal to acquire SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing company, according to people familiar with both companies. Berlin-based SoundCloud is a free service that lets users upload and share audio files around the Continue Reading →

Shazam Entertainment, the music-identification app, landed small investments from the world’s biggest record companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Warner Music Group owner Access Industries – the holding company of billionaire Len Blavatnik – along with Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, are each taking $3 million stakes in Shazam, these Continue Reading →

If you’ve tried listening to any of your old CDs lately, if you even own them anymore, you may have noticed they won’t play. That’s what happened to mine, anyway. CD players have long since given up on most of the burned mixes I made in college. (In some cases, this is for the best.) Continue Reading →