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Merlin: iTunes Remains Biggest Digital Destination; Spotify + Amazon 2nd And...
On the heels of Google wading into the music streaming waters with its Google Play Music All Access service, with a $10 fee for all-you-can-eat streamed tracks, the indie music agency Merlin has today...
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How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody
Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it’s not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete?See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape...
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Spotify Charts launch to showcase top 50 songs each week, with play-counts...
Spotify has launched its very own charts, as it looks to showcase the top 50 songs by region. Spotify Charts constitute both the top 50 most listened to (the Spotify 50) and the ...See it on Scoop.it,...
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A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?
A little over a month ago, Twitter launched #Music, its take on what a truly social music discovery service might look like. It was strategic, leveraging Twitter's enormous user base and vast...See it...
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Yap Music offers the simplicity of Instagram as an iPhone music discovery app
Music apps and services often feel overbearing because they try to offer a multitude of features simultaneously. On-demand streaming, Pandora-style Internet radio stations, collaborative ...See it on...
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With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's...
For years, when it came to driving negotiations with internet music services over licensing, the top record labels were the locomotive and the publishers were the caboose. If the labels licensed...See...
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Online concert venue grants access to sold out shows
EVNTLIVE is an online concert venue that enables users watch a customizable live feed of shows with friends.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Subscriptions Rising: Four Million People Pay Deezer for Music
Nuno Costa Moreira's insight:Deezer has over four million paying subscribers.It also has 25 million tracks, which is five million more than Spotify says it has (not all of these are likely available in...
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MusiXmatch’s Google Glass App Will Put Real-Time Lyrics In Your Face
"In fact, MusiXmatch is already working on this app, or “Glassware” in the Google parlance, which will do at least two things for those wearing the device"See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to...
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Later.fm: Like InstaPaper for Music
Similar to the way InstaPaper lets you queue up blog posts and news article to read later, Later.fm lets you save songs from around the web for future listening by clicking a bookmarklet in your...
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Airbnb For Bands Lets Users Book Famous Musicians For Private Parties
Gigit allows fans to easily book artists including Bone Thugs N Harmony.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Top 10 Reasons Why the Music Industry is Failing
Top 10 Reasons Why the Music Industry is FailingA Guest Post by Ramin StreetsSee it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Why Apple Is Getting Into the Music Streaming Business
Hint: It's not just about the music.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Signs That the Recorded-Music Market is Weakening Globally
"The recorded music market is suddenly looking tired. Poor numbers out of France follow declining digital sales in the U.S. and weak first-quarter numbers in Japan."See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of...
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7digital Makes A Play To Be The Go-To Streaming Radio Backend As Google And...
7digital, the London-based company that offers digital music store services to some of the world's leading consumer electronics companies, including Samsung and Blackberry, as well as to smaller...
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Music Streaming Service Keeps Listeners Focused
Focus@will aims to help boost concentration and productivity and increase people's attention span.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Streaming Music Strikes a Chord with Consumers
With nearly 22 billion songs streamed so far this year in the U.S., according to Nielsen, consumers are engaging with digital music at increasingly high rates.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music...
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Subscription Vs Download
In a recent conversation with my audiophile father (who only buys vinyl or CDs and only ever really used his iPod this year to take his musi…See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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10 music startups changing an industry's tune slideshow
Among the companies in the new wave of music: Spins.fm, TOMAHAWAK, Lisnr, Vyclone, Songza, Songkick, NoiseTrade, SoundCloud, Murfie and BandCamp.See it on Scoop.it, via The Shape of Music to Come
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Fanattac wants to become the skee ball machine of streaming music
It seems like every old, musty arcade has a skee-ball machine -- or, as I prefer to think of them, magical machines that turn an ordinary quarter into prize-winning tickets by way of a rolling...
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