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- MySpace Music opens the door to unsigned bands
- MySpace Music is allowing unsigned artists to add their songs to its service by forming a partnership with digital media distribution firm Tunecore. Musicians will be required to pay a small flat fee for inclusion on MySpace’s on-demand service and in exchange will be paid a percentage of ad...
- Articles 2009-12-14
- Spotify offers paid downloads from 7digital
- Music streaming service Spotify is teaming up with digital download store 7digital to offer paid downloads. Initially, Spotify users will be able to right-click on tracks to be redirected to buy songs and albums from 7digital. However, the partners hope...
- Articles 2009-03-29
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- Europe's Hottest Site, Spotify, Ready to Invade U.S.
- DENVER Billboard - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003?when iTunes launched in the United States?all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies. Add in all the startups that have crashed...
- News items 2009-11-03
- In Depth: 11 ways Apple can kill Spotify on iPhone
- Everybody loves Spotify, and its impressive iPhone app is currently sitting on an Apple desk waiting to be rubber-stamped or rejected.So what can Apple do to kill it? Could iTunes on the iPhone/iPod be better, and are there any Spotify tricks Apple should nick? Here are eleven ways Apple can...
- News items 2009-08-21
- U.S. Labels Unconvinced By Spotify's Freemium Model
- On-demand music streamer Spotify’s U.S. launch is being held up because labels are concerned too few users may migrate from ad-supported to premium.FT.com reports anonymous concerns from three of the four major labels. One exec: “As an ad-supported service, the economics don’t work at all.“We think Spotify is a...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Spotify Close To Getting Its Funding, Between £20 Million to £30 Million
- Spotify's recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for. The startup is thought to have landed at least the £20 million or so it was seeking, making for what's described as a "significant valuation"....
- External links 2009-08-04
- Spotify's Ek Thinks Big: Packaged Service Promises 'A Trillion Transactions'
- You can’t say Daniel Ek doesn’t think big. “We can increase the number of transactions that happen on the internet to trillions,” the CEO of the most talked-about digital media startup said in a London keynote on Wednesday.Ek communicated his desire to “package” music with mobile tariffs, ISP bundles,...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Fair Do's? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167
- How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months...
- External links 2009-11-23
- Li Ka-Shing Confirms Spotify Stake, Will Tie Up With 3, INQ
- Spotify’s mobile future looks assured, at least in part, even if Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) doesn’t approve its iPhone app. China’s Li Ka-Shing Foundation, which previously invested in Joost, has confirmed the rumour to Forbes; it has invested in the much-hyped music streamer.Why does that equal mobile? Ka-Shing (rhymes with...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Updated: Apple Approves Spotify's iPhone App
- Update 2 (6.15pm BST): Apple’s Cupertino spokesperson tells us: “The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Expectation Grows As Spotify Mulls 'Different' U.S. Launch
- As Swedish unlimited music service Spotify rolls toward its planned Q3 or Q4 U.S. launch, many American consumers, who have witnessed its roaring approval in Europe, are on tenterhooks. Some users are trying proxies, some U.S. major-label execs are already testing the service for themselves.But, just as the hype...
- External links 2009-09-13
- Spotify Co-Founder: Notion of Overnight Success "Misleading and Harmful"
- In a surprisingly candid post on Spotify's blog, company co-founder Daniel Ek recently shared his thoughts about where the popular streaming music company stands today and where he hopes it can go in the future. The main point of his post was to clarify that Spotify...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Tories to launch Spotify ad campaign
- Forty-second Spotify ad makes Conservatives the first UK political party to exploit internet music service The Conservatives are to become the first UK political party to run a marketing campaign on the internet music service Spotify, in a bid to target the hard-to-reach youth audience. ...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Nokia gets Spotify mobile phone music app
- Spotify has announced that its mobile phone app is now available on the Symbian platform, offering up the music streaming service to a whole host of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung handsets. The service allows you unlimited music streaming on your mobile phone, as long as you have...
- News items 2009-11-23
- Spotify Now Making Universal More Money Than iTunes, In Sweden
- Unlikely as it may seem, since other ad-supported music sites are finding things challenging lately, Spotify may actually be bringing record labels a big pay day - well, at least in its native Sweden.?In five months from the launch, Spotify became our largest digital source of income and so...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Apple Says It Has Approved App From Music Service Spotify
- Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to iTunes.The decision has been closely watched in part because Apple has previously disallowed apps it deems to duplicate core functions of its handset. Speculation had...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Spotify's US Launch Now Delayed To 2010, More Hopeful On China
- American music fans will have to wait a little longer to try out much talked-about music streaming service Spotify. As Rafat tweeted last night, CEO Daniel Ek told the Monaco Media Forum that the launch would now come early next year as agreements with “thousands” of US publishers and...
- External links 2009-11-12
- Spotify Adds Offline Play; Another Niche Premium Offering
- Much-hyped streaming music app Spotify is introducing what may be one of its best reasons yet to go premium - the ability to store playlisted songs offline.Although the recently released iPhone and Android clients introduced this functionality for premium mobile users, allowing them to continue listening without a network...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Unlimited Streaming Music on iPhone: Apple Approves Spotify
- A spokesperson from Apple has gone on record to confirm that Apple has approved Spotify's unlimited music service app for the iPhone. Because Apple has had a history of rejecting apps it perceived as duplicating core functions of the iPhone see the Google Voice kerfuffle for a recent example, and...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Spotify music subscription app gets approved by Apple
- An application that lets subscription users stream and download music playlists for offline listening has been approved for the iPhone. The service, Spotify, is available from the App Store in 6 countries, not including the U.S., reports paidContent. The approval comes as somewhat a surprise since it seems that the...
- News items 2009-08-28
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