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Debates regarding music streaming services always revolve around the same set of numbers. These services all use a similar model: subscribers pay a flat monthly rate that offers them a full library of music for their unlimited listening pleasure. Artists take issue with their compensation per song–about $0.007 per stream–while subscribers compare monthly pricing models […]

Apple Music lauched last week, and arguably accelerated the streaming wars to new, unprecedented heights. The Verge decided to test out each of the services in a blind test with lots of volunteers to see which service delivers the best-sounding music to the uninformed consumer. The test gave each participant a pair of Sony headphones […]

While Apple is busy converting iTunes fans into Apple Music subscriptions, there are 75 million Spotify users wondering which service best fills their headphones. There’s some interesting new offerings in the Apple Music product like Beats1 and human-curated playlists, but let’s focus on how the new app compares to how users currently use Spotify.   The […]

Apparently, Spotify slightly changed the shade of green on their logo, and people aren't very happy about it (via Entrepreneur). The reasoning behind the change isn't entirely known, but was it necessary? Probably not. For myself, I woke up this past Saturday and thought my phone's graphics were starting to go berserk. Read some interesting […]

After dumping physical CD sales earlier this year, Starbucks has devised a new plan to bring music back into their stores. According to Ad Week, later this fall, the coffee company is teaming up with streaming service Spotify “to equip all employees in Starbucks' 7,000 domestic stores with free Spotify Premium subscriptions that normally cost […]

After analyzing data from their student subscription campaign, streaming music service Spotify has been able to identify the top 40 universities that listen to the most music. The company has also managed to identify distinctive genre, artist and even song preferences of each school’s respective student body. For example, Ohio State’s favorite artist is Childish […]

As of now, most artists aren’t making that much money off Spotify. But as the service grows in subscribers, more ad revenue will come in, and royalties for artists will rise. At least, that’s the theory. In a relatively recent interview with CNN Money (unearthed by Digital Music News), Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that […]

The ever-interesting Anberlin frontman Stephen Christian recently did segment interviews with Real Feels beginning with the heated subject of watching shows through your smart phone (“You’re never gonna watch that, man.”). Moving on, he's sounding off about streaming services like Spotify, Beats and Rdio, favoring them over illegal downloading, but also saying progress needs to be made to pay […]

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A clever band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Vulfpeck, figured out how to scam Spotify for $20,000 by essentially doing nothing. The royalties started pouring in after the band wrote Sleepify, a completely silent album and uploaded it to Spotify. The scheme was designed to fund a tour of free shows and called on fans to stream […]

Pixies recently performed a stripped down version of “Silver Snail” for Spotify. The track appears on the band's latest album, Indie Cindy. The record is the band's first full-length since 1991 and is available for purchase here. Fans can check out the performance below. Leave us a comment with your thoughts! In case you missed […]

With the release of its latest mobile operating system, iOS 7, as well as an update to iTunes (iTunes 11.1), Apple has taken its first serious steps into the arena of streaming music today with iTunes Radio. More akin to Pandora than Spotify in its model, iTunes Radio is currently only available to U.S. customers, […]

Spotify have revealed their most streamed songs of 2012. Unsurprisingly, there are a couple cringe-worthy things, but the presence of art pop breakout artist Gotye and of fun., who had quite a year, may indicate an interesting shift in larger popular musical tastes. Most streamed songs on Spotify globally are:  1. Gotye featuring Kimbra – […]

According to Billboard Biz, Spotify is closing in on $100 million in funds raised for expansion. With that money, the streaming service hopes to open in Latin America and farther across Europe in 2013. Though $100 million may seem like a massive change chunk and, according to the International Business Times, Spotify is valued at […]

A Facebook account is no longer mandatory for Spotify registration in the United States, according to Billboard. Currently, US users may still sign up with their FB account, but the option of e-mail only registration has been added. The lift marks almost an exact year since the requirement was first put into place. Billboard claims […]

Grammy award-winning indie-folk artist Bon Iver has announced a remix contest for his most recent studio album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, in conjunction with Indaba Music and Spotify. You can download all of the stems from the album now and view a statement regarding the contest below. “Remix all of the tracks from Bon Iver, Bon […]

As HypeBot reports, streaming music service Spotify has launched their first series of “Artist Apps” to give an expert look at their genres. The first batch includes Quincy Jones, Tiesto, Rancid and Disturbed. From HypeBot on the first four apps: “QUINCY JONES – THE STORIES BEHIND THE MUSIC – Exclusive audio by Quincy is combined […]

Lyric database musiXmatch has launched a Spotify application that let's you search the streaming service's library by lyrics. The app can also display the lyrics of the current song playing and you can sync them up as you listen (a la karaoke screens). Just search any lyric and all of their library's songs with those […]