Amazon expanded its streaming music subscription service on Tuesday, rolling out a new high-definition option that competes with similar offerings from Tidal and others. Amazon Music HD includes more than… Read More
Amazon is working on a new free, ad-supported streaming music service, ratcheting up its challenge to Spotify, according to a new report. Citing sources familiar with the plans, Billboard reported… Read More
RealNetworks doubled its stake in Rhapsody International, which owns music streaming service Napster, from 42 to 84 percent. RealNetworks will pay $1 million up front in a deal that could… Read More
In streaming music, Spotify gets the celebrity. Spotify gets the global reach. Spotify gets the IPO. Yet the music service originally known as Rhapsody was the streaming pioneer. It had… Read More
The move to streaming music has overwhelmed us with too many choices to count. While we can find the entire back catalogue of an artist in seconds, finding one we actually… Read More
T-Mobile’s Music Freedom and Binge On programs are expanding again today, bringing the total number of services available through the data-saving programs to more than 100. Music Freedom, which lets… Read More
One vision of the future includes a world where no one owns anything, from cars (replaced by Uber) to houses (replaced by Airbnb). While those may be a far way… Read More
Rhapsody International, the company behind the subscription music service that predates Spotify by five years, posted about $202 million in revenue in 2015—a new record and 16 percent more than 2014 revenues. But… Read More
Pandora is meeting with potential buyers after its stock plummeted 60 percent since October, according to a report in the New York Times. The streaming music company had a market value of… Read More
Pandora is going to be paying 20 percent more for every song its users stream, after the Copyright Royalty Board released a decision today hiking rates for streaming songs from $.0014… Read More
Streaming music service Rdio will play its last song soon. The service, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstroem, is declaring bankruptcy. But the streaming service may live on… Read More
Sonos announced today that Amazon Prime Music subscribers can start streaming tunes to their Sonos speakers. The WiFi-enabled speakers already support streaming from Spotify, Google Play Music and Rdio, but the… Read More
Streaming is the future of music, but you might not want your kids getting into every tune on Spotify or Google Music. A new service introduced today from Seattle-based Rhapsody… Read More
Rhapsody is adding a new section to its streaming app designed just for kids. In a teaser trailer released today, the company offered a sneak peek of the “first streaming music experience… Read More
Spotify announced today that it has doubled the number of paying subscriptions since the end of May last year. The streaming music service now has 20 million subscribers and 75 million… Read More
It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how crowded the market is for businesses vying to provide music… Read More
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has a number for Taylor Swift: $2 billion. Ek revealed in a blog post today that Spotify has paid out that much to labels, publishers and others “for distribution to… Read More
Nokia’s MixRadio music streaming service is aiming to spin off from Microsoft as a part of the layoffs the company announced yesterday. The service will still be pre-loaded onto Windows… Read More
Microsoft today unveiled its Xbox Music hub for the web, allowing Xbox Music Pass subscribers to stream their tunes right from the browser. The Redmond giant says that, with a… Read More
For the first time, Rhapsody is going international. GigaOM reported that Seattle-based Rhapsody will launch in 16 European countries in the second quarter of this year. It’s a move that will… Read More