SoundCloud's Music Subscription Service Is Finally Here
Like Spotify, Apple and many others, it's $10 a month. The free version is sticking around, but some songs may move behind a pay wall.
Pandora, Facing More Music Competition Than Ever, Puts Founder Tim Westergren Back in Charge
Brian McAndrews leaves after 2.5 years.
Snapchat Hires Longtime Pandora Executive Tom Conrad as VP of Product
Conrad will report directly to CEO Evan Spiegel, a hands-on product CEO himself.
Can Web Music Survive?
Here we are in 2016 with more news about the struggles of online music businesses than success stories to share.
Warner Music Says It Will Share Its (Theoretical) Spotify Payday With Its Artists
More money for Coldplay if Spotify IPOs.
The Copyright Royalty Board's Ruling Is a Win for Everyone
Virtually unlimited bandwidth should allow for many innovators to create online radio stations.
Pandora Will Need to Pay More for Its Songs, but It Could Have Been Worse
Pandora investors think that's great news.
Is Pandora's Rdio Purchase Good for Listeners and Artists?
I’m scared of a world where one company is the record label, distributor, radio station and record store all in one.
Now We Know Why Pandora Was Throwing Shade at Spotify and YouTube -- It Wants to Join Them, Sort Of
The new music service will likely look a lot like Apple Music: Free music, within limits.
Rdio Is Shutting Down and Pandora Is Buying Up the Scraps
The world's largest streaming radio service grabs a well respected on-demand platform.
Pandora and the Music Labels Finally Agree on Something: They're All Mad at Spotify and YouTube
Pandora says free, on-demand music isn't "sustainable."
Pandora Adds a New Revenue Stream, Buys Ticketfly for $450 Million
The streaming music pioneer looks like it wants to diversify.
Pandora Wins Round at U.S. Copyright Office
The company's pact with Merlin Network, a global rights agency for independent musicians, is admissible as a benchmark in royalty proceedings.
Bringing Music Into the Light
Simple questions like, “Who owns the music?” have no reliable answer.
Congressional Black Caucus Calls on Silicon Valley to Improve Diversity
Chief executive officers of Apple and Intel met with the congressional delegation and affirmed their commitments to diversity.
Guess Who's Making a Comeback? Record Labels.
As difficult as it is to find anything uplifting about the recorded music industry these days, I have recently turned bullish.
Pandora Raises Full-Year Forecast on Higher Ad Sales
Subscriber numbers and listening hours are up too.
In Battle of Streaming Music Services, Simplicity Is the Killer Feature
Why did you have to go and make things so complicated?
Google Adds Free Web Radio to Its Music Subscription Service
Everyone wants to sell you a music subscription service. But everyone wants to let you listen to free music, too.
Code/Media 2015: Pandora founder Tim Westergren
Despite the 81-plus million active users and 20 billion hours of listened-to music last year, musicians, songwriters and record labels spend a lot of time complaining that Pandora doesn’t pay enough for all of that music — while Pandora thinks it...
Apple Is Back in Content
Apple has never really been a content provider before -- it has always simply acted as a channel for third--party content -- so this is a significant shift.
Apple's New Music Service Relies on Features, Not Free. So Those Features Better Be Awesome.
People like free music. Music that costs $120 a year is a different story.
Streaming Music Is Fundamentally Changing the Way We Listen
The recent debate on streaming has been focused on short-term concerns -- issues of access, mobile convenience and remuneration.
Pandora Founder Tim Westergren Makes the Case for Free: The Code/Media Interview
Eighty-one million users agree.
How's the Media Industry These Days? Confused.
Media companies and creators seem to be entering a new period of confusion, as the financial, technological and consumer behaviors they counted on are changing rapidly.
Universal Music Chief Says Industry Needs More Experimentation, Not More Ads (Video)
Free, ad-funded music services won't sustain artists or labels, says Lucian Grainge.
Pandora to Let Music Artists Like Lenny Kravitz Send Audio Messages to Fans (Video)
The messaging service is a continuation of a Pandora initiative to give more tools to music artists.
Pandora Plunges 20 Percent on Revenue Miss
Pandora shares plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that widely missed expectations as mobile advertising growth slowed. The company posted sales of $268 million, which fell short of Wall Street...
Why Big Data Is Bad for Pop Music and More #Mustreads
Taylor Swift might be right after all, just not how she imagined it.
