Over the Past Two Years, Streaming Subscriptions Have Quadrupled In the US...
Actually, more than quadrupled. Which is quite astounding considering that most Americans had no idea that Spotify or Muve even existed two years ago. Muve Music was just getting started in early...
View ArticleOnline radio will start serving ads based on your web browsing
Websites show you ads based on other sites you visited. Now, online radio stations will start playing you songs based on the same information.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleDeezer Is Using RFID Technology to Track Your Every Festival Move...
"Deezer knows what you listened to last night. And you weren't even on their application."See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleA more complete picture of the iTunes economy
As it did yesterday, on occasion Apple reports the cumulative total downloads and payments to developers. Since this is done in variable time intervals, it makes analysis of the value of the app...
View ArticleSoundtracking Remixes iOS App To Match Its Musical Photo Twitter Cards That...
With nearly three million downloads and 300,000 active users, Soundtracking lets you share what you're listening to.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleTrent Reznor's Beats-backed music service will launch in late 2013
Beats Audio has formally announced Daisy, a new streaming music service spearheaded by Trent Reznor that's now set to launch in late 2013. This comes about one month after Reznor's plans were d...See...
View ArticleDJs, meet royalties from TheFuture.fm
If there was any question that DJs are artists, please direct your attention to TheFuture.fm. The site, which allows DJs to upload mixes and users to stream them as radio stations, has begun...
View ArticleTop 28 Facebook Music Apps: The New Generation
Here are the (new) most popular music apps that connect to Facebook, allowing you to share your listening habits with your friends... unless you don't want to, of...See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape...
View ArticleNew Myspace Opens to Public, Riding Timberlake's Coattails
New Myspace — with its drastically different redesign — has left invite-only mode, opening up the revamped social network to the public.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search Ties Music to Everything Else
"On Tuesday, at its big Apple-style press event in Menlo Park, California, Facebook took that concept to the next level by allowing you to see what music people who like something else like."See it on...
View ArticleYouTube owner Google poised to take stake in Vevo
Deal thought to be worth about £42m for stake of close to 10% in music video website founded by Universal and Sony. By Mark SweneySee it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleForget Twitter, SoundCloud Is Social Music's Rising Star
2012 was been a very good year for SoundCloud. What's behind the social music and audio-hosting platform's massive uptick in user activity?See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: To Stream Or Not To Stream?
INFOGRAPHIC: To Stream Or Not To Stream? While it's impossible to prove the exact effects of withholding a new release from on-demand services, this analysis of the year's top albums and songs...
View ArticleThe New MySpace: Music Meets Social, Done Right [REVIEW]
The new MySpace combines music discovery with modern web design to create a great user experience. Now it just needs an audience.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleUniversal Music UK expects big things for mobile in 2013
Several members of Universal Music UK's digital team have been brainstorming their expectations for 2013, laying out some of their ideas in a blog post.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
View ArticleGoogle-commissioned survey: US P2P users buy 30 percent more music
Columbia University’s American Assembly research center is out with a new survey (PDF) commissioned by Google on file sharing and copyright enforcement. The survey gathered public opinions to...See it...
View ArticleShuffler.fm Aims To Bring Expert Curation to Spotify
When Shuffler.fm first launched in the summer of 2010, it was heralded as a kind of "Pandora for music blogs," an assignation that might have to be retired nowSee it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of...
View ArticleComparing Music Services By Audience, Social Media Followers & Search Engine...
By Marcus Taylor, Director of VentureHarbour. This isn’t just another speculative poll on which music streaming / discovery platform is winning the arms race. Oh no!See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape...
View ArticleSerendip Brings Its Social Music Radio Service To Mobile
Today, the streaming music startup Serendip is bringing its "lean back," serendipitous music discovery service to mobile with the debut of the Serendip iOS application.See it on Scoop.it, via The...
View ArticleNokia announces premium Music+ streaming service: Unlimited skips and...
After launching Drive+ in beta, Nokia has just announced the upcoming launch of Music+, a premium music streaming service which adds infinite skips and unlimited downloads to Nokia's ...See it on...
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