Articles about streaming music

Amazon takes on Tidal with new high-def music streaming service

Amazon expanded its streaming music subscription service on Tuesday, rolling out a new high-definition option that competes with similar offerings… Read More

Amazon reportedly exploring free, ad-supported music streaming service, Spotify shares slip

Amazon is working on a new free, ad-supported streaming music service, ratcheting up its challenge to Spotify, according to a… Read More

RealNetworks doubles stake in Napster to 84% in deal valued at up to $40M

RealNetworks doubled its stake in Rhapsody International, which owns music streaming service Napster, from 42 to 84 percent. RealNetworks will… Read More

From Rhapsody to Napster: How this pioneering music service coulda been Spotify — and why it isn’t

In streaming music, Spotify gets the celebrity. Spotify gets the global reach. Spotify gets the IPO. Yet the music service… Read More

Rhapsody debuts social network to match music lovers and improve discovery

The move to streaming music has overwhelmed us with too many choices to count. While we can find the entire back… Read More

Amazon Music, Nickelodeon help T-Mobile’s data-saving streaming programs top 100 services

T-Mobile’s Music Freedom and Binge On programs are expanding again today, bringing the total number of services available through the… Read More

Streaming is king: Revenue from music streaming passes digital downloads

One vision of the future includes a world where no one owns anything, from cars (replaced by Uber) to houses… Read More

Music service Rhapsody posts record $35M net loss even as revenues climb to $202M

Rhapsody International, the company behind the subscription music service that predates Spotify by five years, posted about $202 million in revenue… Read More

Pandora stock halted briefly after spiking on news of potential sale

Pandora is meeting with potential buyers after its stock plummeted 60 percent since October, according to a report in the New… Read More

Pandora will pay more for streaming songs under new ruling — but not as much as music labels wanted

Pandora is going to be paying 20 percent more for every song its users stream, after the Copyright Royalty Board released… Read More

Rdio to shut down streaming music service, sells assets to Pandora for $75M

Streaming music service Rdio will play its last song soon. The service, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstroem,… Read More

Amazon Prime Music finally arrives on Sonos, starting with launch of beta today

Sonos announced today that Amazon Prime Music subscribers can start streaming tunes to their Sonos speakers. The WiFi-enabled speakers already support… Read More

Rhapsody KIDS launches to bring tunes to tikes

Streaming is the future of music, but you might not want your kids getting into every tune on Spotify or… Read More

Rhapsody teases kid-centric music streaming, looking to stand out in crowded market

Rhapsody is adding a new section to its streaming app designed just for kids. In a teaser trailer released today, the… Read More

Spotify reaches 20M paid subscribers, setting a high bar for Apple Music

Spotify announced today that it has doubled the number of paying subscriptions since the end of May last year. The… Read More

Chart: This is how crowded the streaming music industry is

It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how… Read More

Take that, Taylor Swift: Spotify says it has paid out $2B since launch

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has a number for Taylor Swift: $2 billion. Ek revealed in a blog post today that Spotify… Read More

Nokia’s MixRadio streaming service hopes to spin off from Microsoft amid layoffs

Nokia’s MixRadio music streaming service is aiming to spin off from Microsoft as a part of the layoffs the company… Read More

Microsoft debuts Xbox Music for browsers

Microsoft today unveiled its Xbox Music hub for the web, allowing Xbox Music Pass subscribers to stream their tunes right… Read More

Across the pond: Rhapsody launching in Europe

For the first time, Rhapsody is going international. GigaOM reported that Seattle-based Rhapsody will launch in 16 European countries in the… Read More