Streaming music

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P)'s struggles to earn a profit and remain relevant in the highly competitive online music streaming market has been well documented. A Bloomberg report on Wednesday suggested that Pandora's new streaming service dubbed Premium could be the company's final chance to gain...

This may come as a surprise, but AM/FM radio still reigns supreme for new music. Consumers have access to countless streaming music providers, some of which are offered free, but data compiled by Statista show for many Americans, the "dusty old radio in the corner of the kitchen beats their shiny...

On Wednesday, two of the biggest remaining names in traditional radio announced they will be joining forces to try to compete in the digital age. CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) will be spinning off CBS Radio, which will then merge with Entercom Communications Corp (NYSE: ETM). The combined company...

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P), once a pioneer and early mover in the online streaming music space, has seen its competitive positioning suffer at the hands of peers that offered an on-demand music streaming service. Platforms such as Spotify offer consumers the ability to listen to what they want,...

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI)'s satellite radio is found in 75 percent of all new cars sold today. According to Amy Yong of Macquarie Capital, Sirius' dominance in the car will continue until at least 2020, given its "unique commercial free bundle" that's hard to...

The New York Times reported over the weekend that Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) will introduce a new streaming music service that will cost just $5 per month. However, its competitive pricing point in a landscape full of $10 a month services will be short lived, as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)...

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) upped its relationship with Uber, and it is pretty cool. Pandora and Uber signed a partnership two months ago that integrates Pandora's streaming music service into the Uber app, which gives Uber drivers an innovative way to discover new music and enjoy their favorite...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is considering launching a streaming music service exclusively available for owners of its Echo hardware device or phone for just $4 or $5 a month. According to Recode, Amazon will also offer the same streaming service across any device for the industry-standard $10...

Competition in the streaming music space has really heated up in the past couple of years. The latest data from TickerTags indicate that Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) might be losing the battle to rivals Spotify and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). TickerTags monitors social media sites to identify trends...

For the first time ever, U.S. consumers are listening to streaming music services more than they are streaming video, according to a report by BuzzAngle. The report stated that streaming music services like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s Apple Music and Spotify delivered 114 billion streams from the...

The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is engaged in talks to acquire Jay Z's streaming music platform, Tidal. The report was also confirmed by Recode, which took a deep dive into a potential acquisition and what it would mean for the entire streaming music space. Related...

Spotify, the popular streaming music platform, boasts 100 million subscribers, nearly twice as many paid subscribers as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) can claim for its Apple Music platform. Apple is in dire need of playing catch-up, which might explain why the company is looking to acquire Tidal, a...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and its streaming video property, YouTube, is defending itself against an "epic battle" against the music. According to the Wall Street Journal, the music industry is not at all pleased with the declining royalty rates YouTube pays musicians per stream it...

How is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s streaming music service holding up to its peers such as Spotify? The answer could be disappointing to Apple shareholders who had hoped Apple Music would be a meaningful driver of growth. Spotify told The Telegraph that it now counts 100 million monthly...