streaming music
The Beatles are coming to streaming services starting Christmas Eve
Merry Christmas, Beatles fans — you will soon be able to stream the Fab Four’s music. The lone notable holdout from the streaming music sector, The Beatles will allow their...
Apple Music has been a surprising success
Apple Music has garnered some 15 million users in its three short months in business, music industry sources told The Post. The figure is said to be a home run...
Music boss rants about 'inept' tech geeks ruining biz
Jimmy Iovine, the former Interscope label chief, thinks the music business is in dire straits — and blames technology geeks for putting it there. Iovine, who helped launch the career...
Radio giant Cumulus goes hog wild with country music
Cumulus Media head honcho Lew Dickey wants to be the king of country music. Beyond growing a stable of NASH-branded stations, he’s looking to raise a fresh crop of country...
AC/DC to finally stream its music
AC/DC is finally heading to Spotify, three years after the veteran rock band decided to put its catalog on iTunes. The Australian rock act’s music will be available on Spotify...
Apple Music’s launch was even lamer than Tidal’s
The revolution is here — again. On Monday, Apple announced its belated arrival into the music streaming market with Apple Music (a successor to Beats Music), set to debut June...
Spotify launching video, news services ahead of IPO
Let’s go to the video, Spotify’s chief exec says. The world’s biggest audio music streamer, with 60 million active users, said Wednesday it decided to broaden its offering, in part to...
Ed Sheeran's streaming success boosts Warner Music Group
’Tween hearthrob Ed Sheeran helped Warner Music Group hit a digital milestone in its latest quarter. The company, owned by billionaire Len Blavatnik, saw streaming music revenue from its recorded...
Jay Z’s streaming service is already doomed, unless ...
When Jay Z unveiled his partners at the launch of his new streaming service Tidal on Monday afternoon, it looked as though he’d assembled the X-Men (and women) of pop...
More streaming, SiriusXM may mean the demise of car radios
Video didn’t kill the radio star, but Sirius XM and streaming services like Pandora are taking it apart piece by piece. Terrestrial radio, after years of maintaining its vise-like grip...
Free streaming is smallest slice of music revenue pie
"Freemium” doesn’t pay. The major record labels reaped a combined $295 million in revenue from free ad-supported streaming services in 2014, up 34 percent from the previous year, new figures...
What happens to songs literally no one listens to on Spotify?
While you’re busy listening to that Beyoncé song for the ninth time today on Spotify, consider this: nearly 20 percent of the tracks on the digital music service — some...
No Taylor, no problem as Spotify numbers hold steady
Taylor Swift’s decision to yank her music from Spotify seems to have given the subscription music streamer an unexpected boost. Daniel Ek’s digital music service said Monday that its subscriber...
Deezer makes a streaming splash with Muve Music purchase
The US music-streaming business got a lot more competitive on Thursday after Deezer, the No. 2 player in the space, bought Cricket Wireless’ Muve Music. Muve, which will be re-branded...
Album sales take a dive as streaming services clean up
Even Taylor Swift couldn’t save 2014. The talented songbird’s 3.7 million album sales last year — which made her “1989” the No. 1 album of the year — was not...
Music streamer Rdio tunes into Indian market, plans expansion
Rdio, which is vying with Spotify and other music services for streaming supremacy, is looking to expand overseas. The San Francisco-based service is set to launch in one of the...
Warner Music revenue flows merrily up the Stream
Streaming music revenue is becoming a river for Warner Music Group. The third-largest recording giant said streaming revenue surged 74 percent in the latest fiscal year, including subscription services like...
Sony boss: Grammy artists deserve more digital royalties
I’m a Grammy nominee. Now give me more money. Sony/ATV boss Martin Bandier seized on the Grammy nominations to beat the drum in the battle over digital royalties paid by...
Rhapsody teams with T-Mobile to battle music-streaming giants
Real Networks-backed Rhapsody, as it surpasses the 2 million-paid-subscriber mark, is planning an aggressive marketing push with T-Mobile that includes an all-you-can-eat, advertising-free music service for $3.99 a month, The...
CD sales decline as music streaming takes off
The music industry contracted again in the first six months of 2014 — but the decline slowed from a year ago. Total sales, including physical CDs and albums, digital downloads...