Maybe Napster taught everyone a lesson. Music labels, especially the majors, were incredibly slow to adapt to the peer-to-peer piracy that became commonplace around the turn of the century. The RIAA went after consumers in wildly unpopular lawsuits; bands and musicians lashed out at their fans; record sales that had been at an all-time high suddenly plummeted, to the point where comparing sales fi
This week, SoundCloud announced a new change they will be implementing to the highly-popular streaming service. According to their press release, the site will be implementing a 24-hour streaming limit of 15,000 plays. This limit applies to all songs streamed via developer applications that use the site's API outside of the site's actual network...
For as much time, money and media attention as has been invested into the music streaming world, lines of allegiance and legality can still be murky. In a major move toward uniformity, SoundCloud has reportedly signed an agreement with Merlin, a music licensing agency, that will pay over 20,000 independent record labels in exchange for their music appearing on SoundCloud. Acc...
To this point, SoundCloud has appeared to be separate from the ongoing music streaming wars. The website has instead become a haven for up-and-coming rappers, producers and DJs, who used the no-frills interface and intuitive search and recommendation functions to get heard and promote their friends and collaborators...
Since launching its "On SoundCloud" partner program six months ago, the streaming service has paid out $1 million in advertising revenue to partners including labels, audio partners and emerging artists. In a statement released by SoundCloud, the company detailed the success of the program by pointing out specific advertising campaigns that have resulted in high streams
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