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  Bafflingly, On-Demand Streams Now Count Toward Gold and Platinum Records

  May 9, 2013 – Listeners have gone from buying new music to streaming it. Now the Recording Industry Association of America is evolving with them, in a change that makes less sense than it may first appear.As Billboard reports, the RIAA has started taking on-demand streams into account in its methodology for certifying gold and platinum albums. The move marks just the fifth big tweak to the RIAA's metrics for awards since they started 55 years ago. …
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  Kim Dotcom's Disembodied Head Vows iTunes-Beating Music Service at SXSW

  March 12, 2013 – Watch out, Apple. As the music-streaming business evolves at a pace that has the potential to remake the industry, a self-styled outlaw has taken explicit aim at iTunes, still the big kid on the song-downloading block. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, whose legal battle over U.S. …
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  Win a Year of Free Music on Rdio!

  November 24, 2010 – SPIN and Rdio have teamed up to give away five free year-long subscriptions to Rdio's unlimited, on-demand music service! On Rdio you can find new music and stream as much of as you want on your phone or browser with no limits or ads, find your friends and follow them to listen to their music and playlists, and more! Try out Rdio now, with their seven day trial, or enter your information below for a chance to win a year subscription t …
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