Digital music streaming and subscription company Spotify released a new feature called ‘Discover’, in an effort to help its many millions of users around the globe find out about new artists and music they will likely enjoy. The company aims to achieve this by not only leveraging its proprietary recommendation ...
Spotify Launches Streaming Charts Highlighting Top 50 Songs
on 5.21.13
A year ago, Billboard announced that it would start including Spotify data in its Hot 100 charts, and now the Swedish streaming service is breaking out on its own. The Wall Street Journal reports that Spotify is launching its own charts called the Spotify 50 (below) and Social 50, listing the most-streamed and most-shared ...
Spotify Acquires Music Discovery App Tunigo
on 5.3.13
Last fall, Twitter bought We Are Hunted, a “music discovery” startup that made a popular app for Spotify. Apparently Spotify is paying attention: It just bought Tunigo, another music discovery startup with a popular Spotify app. Spotify isn’t announcing terms for the deal, but says that all of the Swedish company’s ...
Spotify is Reportedly Adding a Video Service
on 3.25.13
SAI reports that Spotify plans to expand beyond its on-demand streaming music service into the wild world of streaming video. According to unnamed sources, Spotify wants to take on VOD services with exclusive content, which would put the company in direct competition with companies like Netflix, Amazon, and even, if you're ...
Spotify Comes to Windows Phone 8
on 2.8.13
After promising it would release a Windows Phone 8 app back in November, Spotify has finally launched its music-streaming app on the Windows Phone Store, allowing Nokia, HTC, Samsung and owners of other Windows Phone 8 handsets to get their music fix. The app is free and so is the service for the first 30 days, after which ...
Spotify No Longer Allows Downloads on New Music Purchases
on 1.4.13
Popular music streaming service Spotify will no longer be offering new music purchases to users, after the company began blocking the download option in its desktop app and redirecting users to a newly created FAQ page detailing the fact, notes Pocket-lint. Inside the Spotify desktop app, the company now blocks music ...
How to Spread Your Music Across the Web
on 12.2.12
Cloud storage has transformed the way digital music collectors access their media. But with so many competing hosting services, which should you choose? How about: All of them. Here's how to sync your music collection throughout the cloud. iTunes: Apple's supplemented its ubiquitous media management program in 2011 with ...
Spotify Made You Listen To More Music, WillCall Gets You To Go To More Concerts
on 11.29.12
In 1996, people in the U.S. bought about 2.3 albums per year. Today, thanks to services like Spotify and Rdio, some of us listen to that many albums a day. Last-minute concert ticket app WillCall wants to make live music just as accessible. This week it released version 1.5 of its iOS app, which delivers push notifications ...
Spotify Is Testing a Web Player That We’ll Probably See Next Year
on 11.15.12
If you've been looking for a way to stream Spotify tracks without having to use the standalone app, that day may come sooner than later: Spotify has confirmed with us that they have begun testing the feature with a small audience. A web-based version of Spotify has been a rumor for awhile now, and rumblings of the beta ...
Whyd mines YouTube, Soundcloud and others for songs Spotify can’t deliver
on 11.13.12
Remember how long it took Spotify to end up in the States? The issue? Music rights, of course. Before it could make its way to our shores, the service had to strike deals with a bunch of record labels, making sure the artists, the executives and EMI janitorial staffs all get paid. Whyd, a new French music service that will ...
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