Apple Music has topped the 27 million subscriber mark, announcing the benchmark at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference today at the San Jose Convention Center. That’s a 7 million improvement over December, when the company announced it had achieved 20 million paying subscribers in the two years since the service launched, a 35 percent improvement in the second […]
Apple Inc. has unveiled Up Next, a program to give emerging artists a public platform, via one months’ exposure across various Apple Music platforms. The first artist to go Up Next is Atlanta’s 6lack, a 24-year-old singer whose debut album, Free6lack, was released in November. Born Ricardo Valdez Valentine, his stage name is pronounced “black.” Apple today released a […]
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives is being distributed exclusively through Apple Music, Davis announced on the eve of the film’s April 20 premiere at the 16th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, where it provided a glitzy opening night at Radio City Music Hall. The documentary, directed by Chris Perkel, was financed by IM Global and produced by Scott Free […]
Music service Tidal this week begins providing MQA audio to subscribers, promising a “studio-quality” sound streaming experience for subscribers to its Tidal HiFi package. The MQA, or Master Quality Authenticated, experience will be available only via desktop app, to those who pay $19.99 a month for Tidal HiFi. The MQA streams will be 96 kHz/24 bit, about double the standard Tidal HiFi […]
Our favorite legacy service, Pandora, made the list, as well as newcomer TuneIn, both among the top five internet radio apps reviewed by CNET. In an age where streaming is the new normal, no one should be more than one-click out from one of the lifelines on this list. While that has been a disruptor for terrestrial radio, some […]
In the wake of Apple shutting down Beats and Rdio filing bankruptcy, the industry is taking stock of the online music business models, trying to suss out who will be left without a seat in the next round of musical chairs. With the record labels clamoring for larger tributaries of the streaming cash flow, and the big players like […]
