A Streaming Service for Everyone! | For Students Who Stream, Spotify Prevails

Amazon, iHeart, and Pandora add to the music subscription glut

Competing streaming services raise their prices, heightening the debate of which one to use.

Music streaming is a hot topic within the music industry these days. T Bone Burnett made his stance on the subject very clear at this year's Americana Fest.

Today we're taking a look at a service that's been out for a while now: The Spotify Web Player. Is it for you? We look at the advantages and disadvantages.

On June 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was in talks to acquire Tidal, the on-demand music-streaming service launched by Jay Z (and co-signed by

Google looks to have launched its Play Music store in India today.

A common record industry number has it that it would take 288 million Spotify plays to make the annual income of an average Spotify employee. This is plausible, but the comparison is specious — the pay for a play on a streaming service is comparable to the pay per listener for a play on a radio station.

Apple Music's partnership with Frank Ocean resulted in one of the three major labels curbing the practice of exclusive releases to single streaming services, but to Apple's Jimmy Iovine, it was all a learning experience -- and one they're going to keep "feeling" out.

Consumers are rejecting materialism and looking towards brands that create memories, research suggests.