Apple’s interest in launching a web radio service represents a threat to market leader Pandora, but it also validates the …
Spotify
Spotify is Growing — But Why Isn’t It Growing Faster?
Spotify has frequently been hailed at as the savior of the moribund music industry. Sooner or later, the pundits argue, a streaming music service that gives users unlimited access to virtually every piece of recorded music in the …
How the Business of Streaming Music Will Change Culture…For the Better
Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists.
Focus instead on the nature of those payouts.
Pandora’s Sour Tune: No Profit For a Year, Tumbling Stock
Streaming music service Pandora lost almost one-quarter of its stock market value Wednesday after telling investors that it doesn’t expect to make money for at least another year. Pandora’s struggles illustrate the difficulty …
After Testing It For A Month, I’m Sold on Spotify
“You’ve got to see this,” a friend said to me in June. “It’s a new music service that lets you listen to anything you want from anywhere. And it’s cloud-based, so the music doesn’t take up any space on your hard drive.” He played …
