SoundCloud is quickly carving out a niche for itself as a great alternative to MySpace for musicians to share their songs, and now the company has announced that it’s just surpassed 5 million users, the New York Times reports.
The …
Pandora will begin trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Wednesday at an initial public offering price of around $16, giving the company an initial valuation of $2.6 billion.
Pandora on Tuesday night set the price for 14.7 …
Music service startup Spotify has signed an American distribution deal with Universal Music, the third major record label to sign such an agreement, reports All Things Digital.
While the U.K.-based Spotify currently provides access to its streaming music service to …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shed some light on the fabled “iTunes in the cloud” rumors today, but it wasn’t quite what everyone expected.
Jobs announced iTunes Match, a $24.99 per year service that will match music you’ve ripped from CDs …
Apple is paying the four major music labels in the US between $100 million and $150 million in advance of launching its music streaming service iCloud, the New York Post reports.
It’s a hefty payout, but Apple likely wouldn’t have …
Online radio station Pandora has priced its shares between $7 and $9 in its upcoming initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — giving the cloud music company a valuation of nearly $1.3 billion, according to an …
If you somehow managed to miss out on Amazon’s 99-cent deal for Lady Gaga’s newest album on Monday, fear not. Amazon is now offering “Born This Way” for a buck again today — and this time, the company says its …
After months of rumor and speculation, it looks like Apple has finally succeeded in bringing music labels on board with its upcoming cloud music service. So far, Apple has struck deals with Warner Music Group, EMI and Sony, and it …
Slacker has been talking about its premium online radio service for more than a year now — and today it finally launched.
San Diego-based Slacker already offered a Radio Plus service, which gives users unlimited song skips and cuts the …
P2P file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to pay $105 million to the record companies responsible for shutting it down in October last year, settling a five year-long lawsuit against the now-defunct company.
Using its application for Windows and Mac, users …
Yes, physical album sales are still falling like a rock — but there is hope for the music industry yet thanks to the rise of digital music sales.
Music sales in America are up 1.6 percent this year as of …
One major missing component of Google Music, the company’s recently announced cloud music player, is the complete lack of support from any record labels.
That’s not for a lack of trying, as Google has been in talks with labels for …
It sounds like the music industry is ready to embrace Google’s long-rumored cloud music service as much as Hollywood jumped on board with Google TV. And yes, that’s sarcasm.
Google is apparently gearing up to launch its cloud music service …
SoundCloud is a platform that lets people share the sounds they create, from professional musicians to public companies who want to post earnings calls. The company just unveiled SoundCloud Labs, a site dedicated to experimental projects and features built on …
Streaming music service Spotify just launched a new version of its desktop and mobile application that allows all users to synchronize tracks from their computer to iPods, iPhones and Android phones. Spotify Premium users could already synchronize Spotify playlists with …
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek today refuted the rumors (reported by TechCrunch and others) that the Swedish streaming music service had negotiated a number of deals with major movie studios to stream their content. On his Twitter stream Ek said, “Soon …
SoundCloud may be the biggest music startup you’ve never heard of.
It’s a large-scale platform for people to share the sounds they create and has quietly conquered the professional music community, amassed 4 million users and expanded into all kinds …
Streaming music service Spotify‘s aim is to “make music on-demand available to all.” However, changes announced today on Spotify’s blog mean there will be less music available to all, or at least to those using Spotify Free.
Spotify Free users …
If you’ve ever dreamed of leaving your desk job and starting anew as a DJ (which isn’t unheard of these days), Shapemix for the iPad will get you started.
Shapemix ($4.99 on the iTunes App Store) takes advantage of the …
Have you ever sat next to a friend on the train and wanted to listen to the music he or she was listening to, only to be forced to uncomfortably share headphones? MyStream, which is launching its free iPhone app …
