This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s racked up 27 million Apple Music subscribers, said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, Monday at WWDC. That’s about 7 million more since December. For context, music streaming service Spotify hit about 50 million subscribers …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iMac Pro at WWDC 2:29 For WWDC 2017, Apple headed south to San Jose, dogged by damning comparisons with Google, Facebook and Microsoft over its lack of attention to mixed reality (VR and AR), Siri’s absence from …
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SiriusXM may not be done with its ambitions to take over Pandora. The Liberty Media-backed satellite radio giant is in active discussions about making a bid for the beleaguered online radio streaming service, the New York Post reported Wednesday. SiriusXM has shown interest before in a possible acquisition of Pandora and recently resumed talks with Pandora’s banks over the size …
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I love the Overcast app. It’s the best podcast app I’ve used on the iPhone, and it’s better than Apple‘s Podcasts app. And a few days ago, Overcast added a really fascinating feature for Apple Watch owners: it stores podcasts onto the Apple Watch to listen to away from the iPhone. Turning the Apple Watch into a little podcast repository …
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You may have to wait if you want to watch Will Smith and John Legend perform singalongs in a car on Apple Music. The 16-episode “Carpool Karaoke” series, produced by James Corden, will premiere later this year, according to a report by Reuters. It began life as a viral segment on CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” (Editors’ …
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Online radio giant Pandora opened the gates Tuesday for anyone to join its long-planned Spotify-style music service, after inviting some listeners to test it last month. Pandora Premium, a full-fledged, on-demand music subscription, will compete with faster-growing rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Premium costs $10 a month, though the company is offering several free trials (see below). Pandora, founded …
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If there were any doubts before, streaming is king now. Revenue from streaming music accounted for the majority of US major record labels’ sales for the first time ever last year, a music industry trade group said Thursday. Streaming vaulted over the one-time leader digital downloads, which declined faster than any previous year. The data underscores the meteoric popularity of …
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Spotify’s take on “Carpool Karaoke” gets two hip-hop artists stuck in traffic and makes them write beats that get stuck in your head. With a new video series called “Traffic Jams” kicking off Tuesday, Spotify will run weekly episodes that pair a rapper with a producer, putting them in the back seat of a car to create a new song …
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Record stores mean a lot to Zane Lowe. Best known for his 12 years as one of the BBC’s top Radio 1 DJs, Lowe uncovered the earliest recordings of hip-hop by devotedly riffling through record store bins, and he found the way to Nirvana by awkwardly humming the guitar riff to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to his local record store …
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If streaming is the new king of music, then Drake must be the king of streaming. After Drake’s self-proclaimed “playlist” “More Life” was released on Saturday, it amassed 89.9 million streams on Apple Music and 61.3 million streams on Spotify in the first day alone, according to official numbers confirmed to Fader. Drake’s More Life raked in millions and millions …
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