Frank Ocean’s Blonde Is Now Streaming on Pandora

So much for timed exclusives. Frank Ocean’s much-hyped second album, which was supposed to be an Apple Music exclusive for at least two weeks, is now available to be streamed on Pandora, whether you’re a premium user or happen to have a free account. Sounds like a good deal, right? You don’t have to sign-up […]

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Why Does Spotify Pay Out Such A Terrible Per-Stream Rate? The Answer Is More Complicated Than You Think

Open access to the internet is supposed to allow users to pick and choose what kind of content they’d like to receive, whether it’s mainstream content or content made by independent artists and developers. This should be even more true in the music industry online. But apparently, not everything is all fun and games in […]

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Pandora launches ‘trendsetters’ and ‘predictions’ charts with NextBigSound

Christine & The Queens currently leads Predictions chart, Dua Lipa at No.2

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Pandora And Uber Partner To Bring Music To Drivers

Pandora will sit alongside the Spotify integration, giving Uber drivers and passengers more options… Today, it has been announced that the online radio station, Pandora has joined forces with the taxi service, Uber to bring drivers and passengers a varied music listening experience.  From today, the program will be available for all Uber drivers in […]

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Pandora just announced something which sounds a lot like Spotify’s Discover Weekly

New Music Stations deliver a curated set of tracks every week to users

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Latest Streaming Battle Strategies…

DMN takes a closer look at the latest competitive moves by music streaming platforms… Streaming exclusives. Streaming exclusives have become a major strategy adopted by streaming services to bump subscriber numbers. Tidal have had Rihanna’s ANTI, Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, and Beyonce’s Lemonade as exclusives, and just this week Tidal released 15 Prince albums […]

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