Bye Bye Beats, So Long Zune – Apple, Microsoft Retire Major Digital Music Brands

Two major digital music brands are being retired. Apple is shuttering its Beats Music service and pushing users to Apple Music; and Microsoft is shuttering one of the original digital. Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Xbox Music Reboots As Groove… Or Is It Groove Music? NO, Not That Other Groove Music

Microsoft and Google must be envious.  Despite their massive scale, neither has been able capture a significant portion of the music market, as Apple did with iTunes and appears to. Continue reading

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Bop.fm Finally Adds An App [VIDEO]

Bop.fm has launched its first app. Often described as the Switzerland of music streaming, the new iOS app sources and shares music from a variety of sources including Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora,. Continue reading

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SoundCloud, Google Play, X-Box + 11 More Music Services Added To T-Mobile’s Music Freedom Plan

T-Mobile today added 14 streaming music apps, doubling the services eligible for its data-free Music Freedom program. While not exactly popular with net neutrality advocates, T-Mobile says their "streaming doesn't. Continue reading

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Microsoft Launches Music Deals App Boasting $0.99 and $1.99 Album Deals

Microsoft just announced it's rollout of Music Deals – a new app for Windows and Windows Phone users with big music taste on a tight budget. The company has promised. 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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BandPage, LyricFind Partner To Add Tour Dates and D2F Stores To 5 Billion Lyric Searches Yearly

BandPage and LyricFind have partnered to add artist tour dates and direct to fan stores to one of the net's most consistently popular searches – song lyrics. LyricFind delivers 5. Continue reading

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UPDATED NEWS BRIEF: Peal Jam Accountant Guilty, Gracenote Sold $170M, New WME/ITG CFO, Cash Music & More

TUESDAY 12.24.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web   CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab

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The Echo Nest Adds XBox Music To 400+ Client List

(UPDATED) The Echo Nest adds to its ever expanding lists of partnerships with today's announcement that it's now powering dynamic radio stations for Microsofts' digital music service Xbox Music. Using. Continue reading

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BandPage CEO J Sider On The State Of The New Music Industry

Op-Ed by J Sider, the founder & CEO of BandPage, a leading service for musicians to engage their fans across the web. He's been named to Billboard and Forbes’ 30 Under. Continue reading

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