Category: Digital Music
Rara in-car streaming headed to BMW dashboards Europe-wide without roaming charges
BMW is to offer access to British music streaming service Rara, powered by Omnifone, through its connected dashboards across Europe in its new Series 5 cars. The deal includes a partnership with Vodafone's mobile network across the continent, giving drivers…
Top of the Spotify Pops: Music streaming service launches top 50 tracks widget
Spotify have launched a new widget for websites, displaying both the weekly top 50 most-played tracks on the music service and the top 50 "social" tracks, showing which songs were the most shared across services like Twitter and Facebook for…
Google Play Music All Access: Everything there is to know about the Spotify streaming rival
It's been on the cards for months, nay, years even, but Google have finally unveiled its own music streaming service, not-so-snappily titled Google Play Music All Access. Though there's still much to learn about the search giant's new music offering,…
Stream Daft Punk's new 'Random Access Memories' album for free on iTunes now
Robot rocking robots rock! But that's not been enough for Daft Punk to prevent the sneaky web music pirates from leaking their new album 'Random Access Memories' online a week before its official release date, despite it being one of…
New Daft Punk "Get Lucky" single breaks Spotify streaming records
French dance music duo Daft Punk have seen their new comeback song Get Lucky break all previous records for a single track on streaming service Spotify. Though Spotify have yet to reveal the precise number of plays the track attracted,…
Twitter #Music launches: Recommendations based on your follows
Twitter have launched their long-rumoured music discovery app, Twitter #Music. The app allows users to discover new artists and songs by offering recommendations based on the people the user follows on the social network. Tracks can then be played directly…
Twitter buyout of We Are Hunted now official: Twitter music service nears launch
Twitter have confirmed that their purchase of music discovery service We Are Hunted has now been finalised, sparking rumours that a Twitter music service is now on the verge of launching. First noted back in March, the acquisition will see…
Amazon in talks to launch own music streaming Spotify rival
Online retail behemoth Amazon are said to be in talks with record labels ahead of a launch of their own digital music streaming service. It is thought that Amazon would integrate the service into it's cloud music storage and Cloud…
Spotify lifting the five-play track cap for free UK users
Spotify is today set to remove the cap that limits those using the service for free in the UK to only five plays of each track. According to Musically, as of today, all UK non-paying Spotify users can listen to…
Spotify now has 6 million paying subscribers, 24 million active users overall
Spotify continues its charge towards mass-market adoption, revealing that they now serve streaming tunes to over 6 million paying subscribers. Those subscribers have now brought in over $500 million in revenue for the Stockholm-based company, while ad-funded revenue still keeps…
