Music Streaming Is Hot, But It Can't Skip a Beat

An estimated 100 million people pay to listen each month, but the model is still shaky.

Spotify and Apple Music are at a constant and crippling disadvantage to YouTube to SoundCloud. But why is that, and will it ever change?

Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report.

New year, new me, new industry reports, new forecasts.

Representatives for Prince’s estate are nearing a deal that could have some of the artist’s greatest hits available for streaming on major services like Spotify and Apple Music in time for the Grammy Awards, which are planning a tribute to the legend.

Tidal has one thing going for it: High-resolution music streaming. Adding MQA support will render the service even more unique. And there will be plenty of other ways to enjoy MQA-encoded music in 2017.

With new competitors and momentum, the sector led by Spotify and Apple Music is poised to change dramatically. BUT can it survive its biggest challenges?

"Slowly at first, and then all at once." To quote those words from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is to describe, in the most succinct way, what's happened to the music industry in recent years—specifically, its incredible takeover by digital music streaming.

Can Drake do better than this in 2017? While it might seem obvious to us, not everyone realizes how popular streaming music is. Now we have the numbers to ba...

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