Rdio Says ‘We’re Still Streaming Taylor Swift, Restates “Commitment to Artist Choice”

Even though she finally shared her reasoning, the Taylor Swift's Big Machine vs. Spotify story shows no signs of going away.  Recent leaks point to a fight specifically with Spotify over. Continue reading

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Is Bandcamp’s “Subscribe” Feature the Answer to Sustainable Digital Music Consumption, or Has Streaming Won The Race?

By Tyler Hayes, Freelance Writer & Blogger Bandcamp is a website on a mission to provide musicians with the tools necessary to sell their recorded music–both digitally and physically. It's an. Continue reading

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Rdio Helps Create Immersive Music Marketing Breakthrough for Hendrix Film JIMI [CASE STUDY]

The Marketing team behind the new Jimi Hendrix biopic JIMI: All Is By My Side - written and directed by John Ridley and featuring Outkast’s André Benjamin - offers an interesting case study. Continue reading

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Bop.fm Tipping Point: Pandora, Xbox Music, Rhapsody and Napster Added

Bop.fm specializes in "service-agnostic playlists" allowing you to send a song link to a friend who can listen to it without having the same music service subscriptions that you have.. Continue reading

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Tim Cook On Beats Music and Why Apple Paid $3.2 Billion: “I couldn’t sleep that night…”

Guesting on the Charlie Rose show, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared why he wanted Apple to buy Beats, even with it's $3.2 billion price tag. Some of Cook's enthusiasm for. Continue reading

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TUES. NEWS BRIEF: Rdio Gets More Social, Beats Playlists Critique, Apple Q1 Report, R.I.P Pete Seeger & More

TUESDAY 1.28.2014 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web  CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab 

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Rdio Jumps On Free Music Bandwagon, Lifts Listening Limits

"If you love something, set it free," begins the announcement from Rdio, that they've dropped all listening caps on it's U.S. site.  The move comes just days after Spotify dropped. Continue reading

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FRIDAY NEWS BRIEF: Spotify’s Free Problem, Facebook Adds Trending, Rdio, Smule, FCC, Mindie & More

FRIDAY 1.17.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web   CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Beats 1st Look, Facebook Buys Branch, Playlists.net + Topsify Playlists & More

TUESDAY 1.14.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web   CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab 

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Pure Ups Wireless Speaker Syncing Game With Jongo Speakers #CES

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. As we predicted last month (sign up for more predictions), the home music war is getting real in 2014. Pure joins the rest of. Continue reading

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