Spotify

A year ago, Billboard announced that it would start including Spotify data in its Hot 100 charts, and now the Swedish streaming service is breaking out on its own. The Wall Street Journal reports that Spotify is launching its own charts called the Spotify 50 (below) and Social 50, listing the most-streamed and most-shared songs Continue Reading →

Last fall, Twitter bought We Are Hunted, a “music discovery” startup that made a popular app for Spotify. Apparently Spotify is paying attention: It just bought Tunigo, another music discovery startup with a popular Spotify app. Spotify isn’t announcing terms for the deal, but says that all of the Swedish company’s 20 or so employees will Continue Reading →

SAI reports that Spotify plans to expand beyond its on-demand streaming music service into the wild world of streaming video. According to unnamed sources, Spotify wants to take on VOD services with exclusive content, which would put the company in direct competition with companies like Netflix, Amazon, and even, if you’re willing to stretch you Continue Reading →

After promising it would release a Windows Phone 8 app back in November, Spotify has finally launched its music-streaming app on the Windows Phone Store, allowing Nokia, HTC, Samsung and owners of other Windows Phone 8 handsets to get their music fix. The app is free and so is the service for the first 30 Continue Reading →

Popular music streaming service Spotify will no longer be offering new music purchases to users, after the company began blocking the download option in its desktop app and redirecting users to a newly created FAQ page detailing the fact, notes Pocket-lint. Inside the Spotify desktop app, the company now blocks music downloads when a user Continue Reading →

Cloud storage has transformed the way digital music collectors access their media. But with so many competing hosting services, which should you choose? How about: All of them. Here’s how to sync your music collection throughout the cloud. iTunes: Apple’s supplemented its ubiquitous media management program in 2011 with iCloud, a 20,000 track music locker. Continue Reading →

In 1996, people in the U.S. bought about 2.3 albums per year. Today, thanks to services like Spotify and Rdio, some of us listen to that many albums a day. Last-minute concert ticket app WillCall wants to make live music just as accessible. This week it released version 1.5 of its iOS app, which delivers Continue Reading →

If you’ve been looking for a way to stream Spotify tracks without having to use the standalone app, that day may come sooner than later: Spotify has confirmed with us that they have begun testing the feature with a small audience. A web-based version of Spotify has been a rumor for awhile now, and rumblings Continue Reading →

Remember how long it took Spotify to end up in the States? The issue? Music rights, of course. Before it could make its way to our shores, the service had to strike deals with a bunch of record labels, making sure the artists, the executives and EMI janitorial staffs all get paid. Whyd, a new Continue Reading →

Digital music fans have never had more options, but the experience is more fragmented than ever. iTunes rules digital downloads, Spotify is the subscription music leader, and a slew of other services (Rhapsody, Pandora, Rdio, Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music, etc.) fill in the variety of remaining niches. Xbox Music is Microsoft’s latest entry in Continue Reading →