Music streaming service Spotify announced reaching a major milestone. The company now has over 3 million active paying users. Last time, it had announced the number of its paying subscribers in November, when the tab stood at 2.5 million premium subscribers. Paid membership allows Spotify users to enjoy ad-free unlimited music. It also lets them [...]

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The web based music streaming service, Pure Music, has finally hit UK market. Pure Music is the latest entrant in the field and is expected to provide tough challenge to current reigning provider, Spotify. Pure Music would be offering a month of its services free of cost. It has collaborated with 7Digital and thus would [...]

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Things are not going well for music industry. Despite the emergence of powerful and popular artists, the industry is struggling to converts the numbers to cold hard cash. 2011 proved to be the consecutive seventh year to record decline in music sales. According to a report released by BPI, overall music sales declined 5.6 percent [...]

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Thanks, in part, to BeatsAudio over-ear headphones have seen quite a resurgence in recent years – a few years ago it was all about having an iPod and those the famous white earphones. Well, everyone still wants an iPod or iPhone, but now those white earphones are not cool anymore – NoiseHush has recognised this [...]

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Netflix is getting ready to conquer UK and Ireland and it has just inked a digital licensing deal with BBC Worldwide. The US mail order/streaming media company is expected to give a tough fight to Amazon’s LoveFilm. Netflix is expected to go operational in the UK in e01e.Steve McAllister, President and managing director of sales [...]

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What’s the worst thing about Spotify? It doesn’t pay that much to artists. No. It’s devaluing music? No. It’s the fact that the service is pretty poor when it come to music discovery. There’s so much music, that often, it’s hard to find the hidden gems – sure you can use your friends recommendations – [...]

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Once popular music service Napster is no more. The service has been merged with Rhapsody, which bought the service from Best Buy last month. Napster was launched in 1999, which were the simpler times. The service was a novelty back then and it was something people had not experiences before. Napster was created by Shawn [...]

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Virgin Media is finally rolling out its Spotify services, which will let you stream your music through your TV. However, the service would be available only to TV on Demand subscribers of Virgin Media. The deal was first announced in July this year and it is finally here. Under this service, Virgin Media users will [...]

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