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  Google Unveils Lamely Named, Pandora-Like 'All Access' Music Streaming Service

  May 15, 2013 – Google has launched a paid digital streaming subscription service. As USA Today reports, "Google Play Music All Access" will provide access to millions of tracks.All Access will let users explore based on listening preferences, genre, and more, the Internet giant announced today at its anual Google I/O conference. Any track a user plays can also be turned into its own "radio station," Google said. …
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  Apple Reportedly Wants to Pay Lower Royalties Than Pandora, Whose CEO Just Left

  March 8, 2013 – And around and around the online music-streaming business goes.Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Apple was in talks with the upcoming, Trent Reznor-affiliated music subscription service planned by Beats Electronics. Yesterday, the New York Post reported that Apple has been discussing its own music-streaming service with record labels. …
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  Pandora's 40-Hour Mobile Listening Limit Opens New Front in Royalties War

  February 28, 2013 – Pandora has been lobbying Washington to cut the royalty rates it has to pay artists. Now, the Internet radio company is taking its argument to customers. In a blog post yesterday, Pandora founder Tim Westergren said the popular music service will place a limit of 40 hours a month on free U.S. …
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  Streaming Services Really Are Saving the Music Industry, Global Sales Prove

  February 27, 2013 – Here's something you don't read every day (and certainly not in the last 13 years): The music industry's global revenue increased in 2012. According to a study released earlier this week by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, global sales rose 0.3 percent last year, the first sign of industry growth since 1999 (via the New York Times).Last year's total revenue amounted to $16.5 billion. …
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  If Spotify and Pandora Are the Future, Do Artists Have One?

  January 29, 2013 – The New York Times has seen the future of music, and it doesn't look good for musicians.The music industry, which 10 years ago finally shifted to online sales via iTunes, is now in the midst of another massive change. But the transition to digital streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube brings with it a dramatically different way of paying artists' royalties. …
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  Pandora Users Listened to 13 Billion Hours of Music in 2012

  January 21, 2013 – Pandora has plenty of reasons to celebrate the new year — specifically 1.6 billion of them. According to the streaming service's year-end metrics report, Pandora users created more than 1.6 billion personalized radio stations and listened to more than 13 billion hours of music in 2012. That translates to more than 540 million days' worth of tunes. …
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  Down By Law: The Year Downloading Took a Dive

  December 14, 2012 – In the early dawn hours of January 20, 2012, in a small village on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, heavily armed police (with help from an FBI logistics team) descended on the lavish mansion owned by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. …
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  Rihanna, Brian Wilson, Everyone Suddenly Mad at Pandora

  November 15, 2012 – A bill introduced in Congress in September that would cut the royalty rates that Internet radio providers must pay to artists has led to some unusual bedfellows. Rihanna, Katy Perry, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Nas, T.I., Blondie, Billy Joel, and more than 100 other artists have signed an open letter opposing the so-called Internet Radio Fairness Act. …
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