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Amazon and Pandora’s $5 streaming music services will reportedly launch in the next few weeks

Amazon and Pandora are readying new music streaming services for launch in the coming weeks, The New York Times reports, with…

8 years ago

Top Spotify sales exec Jonathan Forster exits company

One of the longest-serving employees at Spotify, Jonathan Forster, is leaving the company. The news was first reported by Swedish…

8 years ago

Spotify is out of contract with all three major labels – and wants to pay them less

Spotify is out of contract with all three major music companies, MBW has learned, with a dispute over revenue splits…

8 years ago

Spotify’s most viral tracks US, UK and globally

These lists represent the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by…

8 years ago

Spotify raids BBC Radio for talent to boost UK playlist team

Just over a year ago, MBW broke the news that Apple Music had poached no less than four BBC radio…

8 years ago

Apple: Music streaming should pay songwriters $910 every million plays

Apple has filed a new proposal with the US Copyright Royalty Board which it hopes will simplify songwriting royalties in…

8 years ago

At this rate, music downloads will be dead by 2020

Single-track download sales in the US have crashed by 42% since their peak just four years ago – sparking the…

8 years ago

How Apple hopes to win the streaming war

Drake's "Hotline Bling" video, Taylor Swift's tour movie and the Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" have something in common: They've all been…

8 years ago

SoundCloud, Amazon, Tidal: streaming’s other runners

Apple, Spotify and YouTube have all been grabbing the streaming headlines of late, albeit for different reasons. While these companies…

8 years ago

Spotify tops 100m active users – but can it keep up its conversion rate?

Spotify has confirmed that its platform now officially boasts more than 100 million active users. The last official confirmation we…

8 years ago