Spotify says it now has 50 million paid subscribers
Like any business, when it comes to streaming-music subscribers, numbers are what really matter. And Spotify has the numbers that matter the most. Fifty million of them, to be exact. Spotify said in a...
View ArticlePandora Premium on-demand music streaming service to launch this week
Pandora Media on Monday joined the online, on-demand music-streaming industry, as the Oakland-based internet radio company officially announced the debut of its new Pandora Premium service. The new...
View ArticleSpotify, Apple Music give music industry its best year in 20 years
After playing the blues on repeat for a while, the music industry can mix its playlist up a bit after sales climbed 11 percent last year, the biggest jump in about two decades. Streaming services...
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Apple Music’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ to premiere on August 8
Apple Music’s first original show now has an official premiere date. After pushing back the release date from April to “later this year,” Apple announced on Tuesday that “Carpool Karaoke: The Series”...
View ArticleApple becomes a TV station with ‘Planet of the Apps’
First there were the Big Three TV networks: CBS, NBC and ABC. Then came HBO, Showtime, MTV and the rise of cable TV. The debut of Fox, in the late 1980s, turned the Big Three into the Big Four. Netflix...
View ArticlePandora CEO Tim Westergren reportedly stepping down soon
The month of June is near its end, and so may be Tim Westergren’s tenure as CEO of Pandora Media. According to Recode, Westergren will soon step down for the second time from the top job at the...
View ArticleSoundcloud needs an investment deal by Friday or faces collapse
Soundcloud, the free music streaming service, is at a crossroads. Unless investors approve an investment plan to keep the company afloat by Friday, Soundcloud may quickly be out of cash. Soundcloud...
View ArticleSpotify removes white supremacist bands after Charlottesville violence
Spotify removed 37 artists labeled as “white supremacist hate bands” from its platform on Tuesday, in part of a larger tech company backlash against white supremacists after the violence at...
View ArticleOff Topic: Taylor Swift, weaponized mosquitoes, Brazil’s Ms. Bumbum’s...
Are you a Taylor Swift fan? Well, don’t look for her new album “Reputation,” to be on Pandora, Apple Music, or any other streaming service for at least a week after its release…Weaponized mosquitoes?...
View ArticleBeats co-founder Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August: report
Beats co-founder and legendary record producer Jimmy Iovine will be leaving Apple Music in August once his shares with the Cupertino tech giant are vested, according to multiple media outlets on...
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