Xbox Music Adds Gracenote Music Recognition
Gracenote today announced an agreement with Microsoft to provide their music recognition technology to Xbox Music Pass subscribers. Among other features, MusicID will be used to identify music owned by. Continue reading
Microsoft In Talks To Acquire AOL’s Winamp and SHOUTcast
Earlier this week, it was announced that AOL was shutting down media player Winamp. But a new report says that Microsoft is in talks to purchase both Winamp and media. Continue reading
UPDATE: Microsoft Clarifies Free Music Streaming On Xbox One Console
UPDATE: Xbox One will not offer free streaming, as was tweeted by Microsoft XBox One executive Albert Penello. In a new tweet yesterdat Penello clarified: I was wrong about Music. Continue reading
LiveNation Partners with BandPage For Artist Profiles
Live Nation has partnered with BandPage to add artist profiles on LiveNation.com. The match follows similar BandPage Connect API integrations with VEVO, Xbox Music and Rhapsody. BandPage's 500,000 artist profiles will. Continue reading
Breaking Bad Was Very, Very Good For Badfinger’s “Baby Blue”
Badfinger's "Baby Blue" digital song sales jumped +2981% over last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In the last few hours of Sunday night, the song was purchased 5300 times, compared. Continue reading
Microsoft’s XBox Music Goes Freemium, Adds iOS and Android Apps
Microsoft is expanding the reach of it's subscription streaming service XBox Music to include a free ad-supported web player and it's first ever apps for Googles' Android and Apple's iOS platforms.. Continue reading
Zoë Keating Shares Update Of Her Streaming Music Revenue
Zoë Keating returns with another episode of "show me the money" as she endeavors to lift the curtains on what one artist makes in order to advance the discussion about. Continue reading
BandPage Partners With XBox Music, VEVO To Extend Artists Reach To Millions
Thanks to two important new partnerships, BandPage is taking the content posted to its app by 500,00 musicians and spreading it to millions of potential fans on Microsoft's XBox Music. Continue reading
Xbox Moves Continue To Increase Microsoft’s Reach In Music Beyond Xbox Music
In many ways the foundation of the potential success of Xbox Music is built on the fact that music has long permeated the Xbox experience. Even as Microsoft has developed. Continue reading
12 Reasons Microsoft’s Xbox Music Can Be A Contender
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Microsoft just officially unveiled its new music service, Xbox Music, which it hopes will compete with iTunes, Spotify, and everything else like. Continue reading
