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But, is this enough to convert its 175 million users to its paid subscription service ‘SoundCloud Go’? Earlier in the year SoundCloud announced the addition of a stations feature. Now, the streaming service has announced an update to this feature which allow users to discover music in what SoundCloud calls ”a lean back, seamless listening experience”. […]
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Spotify stays ahead of competition… According to a report by MBW, Spotify has hit 37 million paying subscribers, adding approximately 2 million paying users a month in the last quarter alone. If these figures are correct, it means that June was the fastest growth period for the streaming service since launching in 2008. It would also represent […]
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Stat means that Spotify currently has more than double Apple Music’s subs worldwide
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Apple Music will never catch up to Spotify if people keep cancelling their subscriptions… Last week, Cowen’s John Blackledge and Tim Arcuri shared some information in a recent report, on the rate of which Spotify and Apple Music lose subscribers on a monthly basis. According to Cowen, Apple Music have a subscriber churn rate of 6.4% […]
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Good news for artists. Music fans are streaming more music through on-demand audio streaming services than video streaming platforms… According to BuzzAngle, Americans are consuming more music through on-demand audio streaming services than through music video platforms. In the first six months of 2016, Americans played more than 114 billion audio streams on streaming platforms […]
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The fallout between these two digital music giants is starting to get ill-tempered…
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Spotify has had enough of Apple’s anti-competitive strategies… Spotify has previously thanked Apple for increasing the rate of growth in their subscriber numbers, and for helping the service reach 100 million active users. Spotify’s Vice President Jonathan Forster previously said… ”Since Apple Music started we’ve been growing quicker and adding more users than before. It’s great that […]
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Ok, streaming services you can have my album now… Adele has never been a fan of music streaming services and has admitted that she doesn’t use streaming services herself – she prefers to buy a physical CD or download a song or album. When discussing with TIME why she didn’t originally put her album on streaming […]
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Spotify service goes down…again. Today (June 22nd) Spotify has been experiencing technical difficulties, causing the streaming service to go down in areas of the UK, US and others places across the world, leaving users unable to stream music. Though the app allowed users to listen to music that was saved for offline playback, the service […]
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