Sirius XM acquires Pandora in $3.5 Billion deal Sirius XM Holdings has acquired Pandora in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.5bn. The deal brings together SiriusXM's base of over 36m subscribers across North America and 23m annual trial ... Read More...
Problems at Pandora Pandora Media Inc. has asked major record labels for money or for better deal terms to help reverse losses and reduce pressure from impatient shareholders. That's the word from Bloomberg, which reports that sen... Read More...
Prince’s Music Now on Streaming Services As of Sunday, you can find Prince’s music from Warner Bros. streaming on all music services including Apple, Spotify, Pandora and Amazon. Previously it only streamed on Tidal. Cameron Strang, chairman and CEO o... Read More...
Amazon Debuts Music Streaming Program Amazon has launched its new streaming music program. Carrying the name of Amazon Music Unlimited, the new service is muscling into the crowded territory with a unique integration with its existing home technolo... Read More...
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...
The Ugly Face of Music Streaming Wars Continues According to a recent article by CNN’s Seth Fiegerman, the face of music streaming is rearing its ugly head as each day passes. Grammy winner Frank Ocean received a ton of backlash from fans little more than a ... 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...
Sony Music Sues Rdio For Fraud In Pandora Deal In another installment of the lawsuit chronicles The Hollywood Reporter announced, Sony Music has filed suit alleging it was defrauded of millions when the on-demand service Rdio came to agreement with Pandora ... 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...
The Power of Music Streaming In 2013 we listened to iTunes Radio and Google Play Music . In 2014, Taylor Swift flipped toe bird to Spotify and You Tube launched its' own music subscription service. By 2015, the music streaming landscape... Read More...
