Apple Music is now the No. 1 music streaming service in the United States, according to an industry source who spoke to Digital Music News. If correct, this would be the first time the number of Apple Music subscribers in the U.S. has surpassed the industry leader, Spotify.
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Spotify passes 75 million paid users, misses on revenue in first earnings report since IPO
Spotify has officially acknowledged that it has 75 million paid subscribers.
Spotify boosts free tier with on-demand playlists and data saver mode
Spotify today unveiled a brand new free version of its mobile app with data-saving mode consuming up to 75% less cellular data on the go. The company is also beefing up its free tier with 15 on-demand playlists as Apple Music gains traction.
Give the Spotify app some color with this tweak
The Spotify Music app usually adopts a black and green color scheme, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle if you’d prefer to change things up. A new free jailbreak tweak called Colorify by iOS developer chloeeisoaky lets you change the app’s color scheme to your liking.
Shown above, you can gaze upon some examples of how the Spotify Music app looks after modifying its core colors. These include the background, the tabs at the bottom of the app, and even the text that describes the music you’re looking at.
Spotify for Apple Watch could be announced at WWDC
The long-awaited Spotify app for Apple Watch could be unveiled at WWDC 2018, in June, according to an anonymous MacRumors source, who claims to be involved in the development of the app.
The app would take advantage of a new watchOS 5 framework called StreamKit, which would supposedly allow cellular Apple Watch models to stream music and receive notifications from third-party apps independently of their paired iPhone.
Spotify claims twice as many paid subscribers as Apple Music in its IPO filing
The leading music-streaming service Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission last December, and now the filing has gone public.
Spotify may be planning to enter production with its own HomePod rival
Spotify last spring ran a curious job ad for a Senior Product Manager that signaled its interest in the hardware game, and now we're learning via a collection of new job listings that Spotify's HomePod rival may in fact be in the works literally as we speak.
Sonos welcomes HomePod with a snarky playlist hosted on Spotify
HomePod is here and competitors are taking notice.
Spotify to add coverage of news, sports, politics & pop culture that can be seen and listened to
Apple Music rival Spotify has a new plan to take on radio and reinvent podcasting by offering listeners audio coverage of news, sports, politics and pop culture, featuring visuals.
Spotify hits 70 million paid subscribers ahead of expected IPO
Spotify on Thursday announced that it has surpassed the 70 million paid subscriber mark (it has said in the past it has over 140 million total users). That's up 10 million from the last update the company gave back in June, and roughly double that of if its primary competitor Apple Music.
SpotifyHistory adds a song history list to the Spotify Music app
Spotify is one of the most popular alternatives to Apple Music for media-streaming on iOS, but it lacks a history list for seeing what you’ve listened to in the past.
If you’ve been itching for a way to change that, then you might find a new free jailbreak tweak called SpotifyHistory by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson helpful. It brings a full-featured music history list to iOS' official Spotify Music app.
SEC gives Spotify preliminary approval for a new kind of IPO that doesn’t offer new shares
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given the #1 music-streaming service Spotify preliminary approval for a new type of “underwriter-less” initial public offering (IPO).