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Apparently, it isn’t decided that Facebook Music will even be a streaming service though.

Although these discussions are apparently still in the early stages, it is thought that Facebook is looking to create something to rival Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Xbox Music and the like. Now, Apple wants to enhance the music craze to another level with the introduction of...

Prince’s Tidal page still has what looks to be his full catalog. Meanwhile, the Star Tribune noted that Prince is “super-protective of his music, videos, and even image”.

Prince is pulling a Taylor Swift, asking for his popular catalog of music to be removed from a few streaming-music services. Few musicians have as much control over their work as the big-name holdouts – Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift – who’ve recently made a...

It means that a United States subscriber who would be paying $9.99 if they had signed up via Spotify’s own website is paying $12.99 a month to access the streaming music platform. In return, Apple keeps a 30 percent cut for all the in-app purchases that are made for these...

Facebook has held licensing talks with record labels and is proposing lucrative revenue-sharing deals.

Rumours first began circulating following a report by Music Ally which claimed Facebook would launch an own-brand service within a matter of months. The record labels would choose which videos appear on Facebook, and Facebook and the labels would share revenue from advertising...

Apple will release the first public beta version of iOS 9 today, just one day after it pushed iOS 9 beta 3 to developers that are registered with its $99 per year iOS development program.

Apple’s current Two-Factor Authentication scheme has been criticized for being clunky.

Earlier, Cue had revealed that the next iOS 9 beta with Apple Music would arrive later this week. But for now, at least, the streaming services seem to be rising together. Even though those will co-exist too.

Daniel Ek of Spotify, the Beggars Group label consortium and the almighty Taylor Swift (among many others) are among the many who have all inveighed, quipped or protested against Apple Music, which stands to profoundly reshape the music industry with its launch last week....

The Album Equivalent Sales (AES) industry metric – which measures the volume of physical and digital album sales combined with converted single track download sales and songs streamed on audio streaming services – showed overall recorded music consumption up 4 percent...

Prince has removed his music from all streaming platforms – except Jay Z’s Tidal. Much of his catalogue had never made it online.

Prince’s music remains on Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal, which aims to give more money directly back into the hands of artists.

Spotify is one of the most popular online music streaming service of the moment. But it may have wished Steve Jobs was still around to nail the user experience and the timing of the launch. Now, when I want some music, I turn on Pandora (free) or Spotify, if I want to listen to...