Spotify and Apple Emerge As Music Streaming Winners According to music tech insiders music streaming in general has seen strong growth in 2016 and as it seems this recent increase in subscribers has largely been isolated to two major leaders in the streaming war... Read More...
Samsung’s Milk Music Has Gone Sour Samsung has formally announced it is shutting down its floundering U.S. mobile music service, Milk Music on September 22. According to several reputable music tech sites, Milk Music which launched in 2014 exclu... Read More...
Here We Go Again: Is Apple Buying Tidal? Apple is allegedly in talks to acquire Tidal, according to a source at the Wall Street Journal, while respected New York Times music journalist Ben Sisario quotes his sources as saying that Apple has no intenti... Read More...
Irving Azoff’s Open Letter Blasts YouTube Irving Azoff, former record label executive and CEO of Azoff Music Management currently representing artists such as Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Raphael Saadiq and R&B icons, Earth Wind & Fire ... Read More...
Who’s Winning The Streaming Showdown? According to CEO Daniel Ek, Spotify has reached another milestone as the streaming platform recognizes 30 million paying subscribers and 55 million listeners. The oft referred to market-leading global music ser... Read More...
Internet Radio & Music Streaming: The New Pay To Play? Last week’s article on the powerful and rapidly changing face of music streaming predicted in point number 5 that “Music May Not Remain Totally "Free." In the next two weeks that prediction will come trues as ... Read More...
Why Is Beats Music Really Shutting Down? If you have a dream about creating a startup and having it bought out by Apple for a huge profit, you’re not alone in counting the potential coins. According to Fortune magazine, Apple has taken over nearl... Read More...
Apple Shuts Down Beats Music As additional details remain forthcoming, Apple has just announced that Beats Music will shut down on November 30, 2015. Current users of the service will be asked to migrate their accounts over to Apple Music... Read More...
Apple Tsumani or Tidal Wave? Just like another edition of grand opening, grand closing Jay-Z’s Tidal music streaming service debuted with great fanfare, was quickly ushered out of the iPhone Top 20 download chart before plummeting out of t... Read More...
Apple to Invest $40M in HBCUs As part of its own efforts in promoting diversity in the technology industry, top American tech company Apple has revealed plans to donate over $40 million to historical black colleges and universities to help ... Read More...