Rhapsody’s quarterly revenue reached nearly $42.5 million in the second quarter — an increase of 22 percent — but the music service’s loss widened to $4.7 million, from a loss… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody continues to make moves in the online music arena and today acquired two music discovery startups. The first is Ex.fm, a New York-based company founded in 2010 that helped… Read More
Rhapsody — one of the pioneers in the online music arena — said today that it has topped two million paying subscribers for its Rhapsody and Napster music services. That’s… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based subscription music service, is making a new push into the world of Internet radio — offering a $4.99/month ad-free service called unRadio with features including unlimited skipping, offline… Read More
The Rhapsody music service has been through a lot of change in recent years — spinning off from RealNetworks, acquiring Napster, bringing on new investors, making cutbacks, growing its subscriber… Read More
Spotify announced in a blog post today that it has 40 million active users and 10 million subscribers paying for ad-free streaming. Those numbers clearly put it in the lead… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International today announced its first outside investment ever, pouring money into an electronic dance music (EDM) company. Rhapsody International, the parent company to Rhapsody and Napster, led a Series… Read More
The combined subscriber base of the Rhapsody and Napster music services has grown to more than 1.7 million globally, achieving a 63 percent year-over-year increase and sending a message about… Read More
Rhapsody today announced that it is ending its partnership with The Echo Nest, just weeks after the music intelligence company was acquired by Spotify. Seattle-based Rhapsody said it has “never been completely… Read More
Music subscription service Rhapsody, the grizzled veteran in the ever-changing world of digital music, saw its revenue fall by more than $3 million to $140.6 million in 2013, while its… Read More
This morning the volume got turned up in the streaming music business when Spoitfy announced the acquisition of The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that helps Justin Bieber fans… Read More
It’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one Rhapsody music service on two devices using three pieces of… Read More
Subscription music service Rhapsody, which recently cut 15 percent of its workforce and shook up its top management, posted a $5.6 million net loss for the third quarter — falling… Read More
Rhapsody subscribers, get ready to samba. Through a partnership with Latin American carrier Telefónica, Rhapsody will be extending the reach of its Napster brand to Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru… Read More
Brian McAndrews, former head of aQuantive and Pandora’s new CEO got some good news today from the company’s law firm: it looks like the service won’t be losing music any… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International is cutting 15 percent of its workforce, and its president Jon Irwin is stepping down with the arrival of a new investor, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, which… Read More
Rhapsody is focusing more intently on its core music subscription service, dropping third-party ads from its Rhapsody.com website and discontinuing sales of MP3 downloads. And in the short term, at… Read More
Apple unveiled its long-awaited move into streaming music this morning, announcing plans to release a free Internet radio service called iTunes Radio later this year. It follows the mold of… Read More
It’s makeover time for the Rhapsody iOS app, as the Seattle online music streaming company just debuted a completely redesigned version of the app. There are several differences from the… Read More
To many listeners, one benefit of purchasing physical music is the ability to learn who was responsible for the behind-the-scenes production, like the names of songwriters, background vocalists or song… Read More
Jon Maples, Rhapsody VP of Product and Content, has some veteran advice for fellow music streaming competitors Spotify and Rdio: Stop making the same mistakes we did. In this blog post,… Read More
The music subscription business is a tough one, as evidenced by our report earlier today that industry pioneer Rhapsody continued to lose cash even as revenues hit a record of… Read More
Rhapsody, the digital music subscription service based in downtown Seattle, saw its revenue rise nearly 13 percent in 2012, to $143.7 million, while the company reduced its annual loss to… Read More
There was a point in the past decade when it seemed as if technology, largely by way of illegal peer-to-peer downloading, was going to ruin the music industry. But recent… Read More
Less than a week after Spotify jumped onto Windows Phone 8, Rhapsody is doing the same. Seattle-based Rhapsody just debuted its new app for Windows Phone 8, which was built… 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
Seattle-based Rhapsody continues to make it easier for music-lovers to access its service. We wrote last week about how you can now listen to music on Rhapsody with Xbox Live.… Read More
Rhapsody is taking on Shazam’s music recognition model with a little twist. Seattle-based Rhapsody recently launched SongMatch, an Android app that mimics Shazam and allows users to identify music in… Read More
As promised, Seattle-based on-demand music service Rhapsody launched its Xbox Live app today. The service is available for current Rhapsody subscribers and Xbox Live Gold members. “Many families will be gathering… Read More
Shares of Pandora slumped today after Bloomberg News reported that Apple plans to launch a new ad-based online music service early next year. Pandora fell more than 11 percent, with… Read More