Tagged: Spotify & News
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Embeddable weekly music charts from Spotify reveal online streaming trends News
22.05.2013 Spotify has started publishing this week charts of the 50 most-streamed and 50 most-shared songs on the music-streaming network, providing valuable information on online music... -
#io2013 – Google Play Music All Access to compete with Spotify News
15.05.2013 Google has formally revealed its new streaming-music subscriptions service which will sit on top of the existing Google Play Music service. The on-demand song-streaming service... -
Google to take on Spotify with its own music subscriptions service News
15.05.2013 As things get under way at Google’s annual developer shindig I/O, it has emerged that Google is planning to add music subscriptions to the bevy of sectors it seeks to dominate,...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ breaks Spotify record, reaches No 1 on iTunes in 14 countries News
22.04.2013 Robot rock duo Daft Punk’s latest single, released at 12.01am ET (5.01am Irish time) on Friday 19 April, has reached No 1 in the iTunes chart in 14 countries, conquered the top...Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Twitter #Music app to go live online and in iOS App Store today News
18.04.2013 Starting today, Twitter’s anticipated music-discovery app Twitter #Music will be available online and for the iPhone through Apple’s App Store.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Apps -
Vinyl back in vogue as 18-24-year-olds lead resurgence of record sales News
18.04.2013 It seems 18-24-year-olds in the UK are preferring vinyl records to iTunes and Spotify, if research from ICM in time for Record Store Day this Saturday is to be believed. -
Twitter Music gives Ryan Seacrest something for the weekend, but rest of us left waiting News
15.04.2013 Coachella has passed without much noise from Twitter’s music app, which was expected to launch at the California music festival last weekend. While select artists and... -
Will Spotify make the move into streaming video? News
25.03.2013 Watch out Netflix, because rumour has it Spotify is looking to move into the video-streaming arena with exclusive, original content.Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Price negotiations stall Apple music-streaming service roll out News
08.03.2013 The iRadio streaming music service planned by Apple that will compete with Pandora and Spotify is being held up by difficult negotiations. Record labels are believed to have... -
Spotify joins forces with Volvo to bring voice-controlled streaming music to cars News
06.03.2013 Car maker Volvo will today launch a new integrated, voice-activated music system brought about through a partnership with streaming music giant Spotify. The music service will... -
Digital music sales growing, subscription services gaining ground over pirates News
28.02.2013 A report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released this week shows how the music industry is staying strong in the digital age. -
Myspace redesign coincides with Justin Timberlake’s latest single launch News
15.01.2013 Myspace has been given a facelift aimed at making music more discoverable. The new design currently features a giant image of investor and pop star Justin Timberlake on its...Categories: Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Europe’s best tech start-ups: Europas shortlist published News
09.01.2013 The shortlist of nominees for the forthcoming Europas start-up awards in Berlin on 22 January has been revealed and more than 1,000 nominees have been put through the judging...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Deezer reaches 3m subscribers and launches free music-streaming service News
20.12.2012 Subscription-based music-streaming service Deezer has announced the launch of a free, ad-supported version of its service in Ireland as part of the roll out of the service in... -
People have the power - public get to decide Europe’s hottest start-up at Europas News
19.12.2012 Public voting for the People’s Choice Award for Europe’s hottest start-ups at The Europas, which take place in Berlin on 22 January, has begun in earnest, with some 12,000 votes...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
Spotify adds Follow and Discovery tabs, and 30 years of Metallica to catalogue News
07.12.2012 Spotify has been busy in the past 24 hours having introduced an upgrade with added features for following users and discovering new music, plus the addition of Metallica’s... -
Radio-friendly Gotye beats Carly Rae’s viral hit in Spotify’s 2012 music charts News
30.11.2012 For many months this year you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Gotye’s earwormy track ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’, and it seems that the radio-friendly tune from 2011... -
First 20 judges for Europas revealed News
27.11.2012 The first 20 judges for the European start-up awards – The Europas – have been named. More than 1,000 people will attend the awards in Berlin in January, the event’s organisers... -
Spotify arrives in Ireland – unlimited music ads-free from less than €5 a month News
13.11.2012 Spotify has finally arrived in Ireland and is now officially in 16 other countries, including the US, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, France, Switzerland, Germany,... -
SoundTracking app unites Spotify and Instagram to make your memories sing (video) News
22.10.2012 The growing SoundTracking social media community has just received a welcome boost with the news that a new SoundTracking for Spotify has been created that lets users unite...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps