Apple Music

Apple Responds to Spotify Legal Case

Apple has responded to Spotify’s legal complaint against the company, calling the case “misleading rhetoric,” adding that Spotify “seeks to keep all of the benefits of the App Store ecosystem……

Spotify Files European Complaint, Saying Apple Has “Unfair Advantage”

Music streaming service Spotify has filed a complaint with the European Commission, saying that Apple has an unfair advantage that ‘stifles competition’ in the sector. In a blog post, Founder…

Apple Hiring Artists To Design Apple Music Playlist Covers

Apple has been hiring iconic designers from around the world to create new Apple Music Playlist covers in a bid to offer more distinction and instant recognition to its music…

Apple Music Not Appealing Music Royalties Increase

Apple is the only major streaming company not to appeal a royalties increase paid to songwriters, with Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon all battling to avoid a rise. The U.S….

Apple Hiring More Software Developers Than Hardware

Apple is hiring more software developers than hardware developers for the first time, according to a new report by Thinknum. The analytics firm has studied job listings at Apple for…

Apple Music roll out lyric support across seven major additional markets

Amid concerns of an Apple consumer boycott in China and India, the tech giant quietly announced the expansion of Apple Music song lyrics to seven further countries. As of this…

Dis-Connect: Apple discontinues its music social network

Remember when Apple set up something of a social media network? Nope? No one else does, either. Just three years ago, Apple introduced Apple Music Connect, marketing it as “unique”…

Get festive with Apple’s holiday playlist

Crank up the Christmas classics! Christmas is just around the corner, and what better way to prepare for the holiday season than replaying all the Christmas classics to your heart’s…

Apple echoes Amazon

They’d like to teach the world to sync Recently, Apple announced that they have signed a deal with Amazon to enable Echo users to access their music service on their…

Apple and Genius lyric database launch new partnership

“Just let me staple the vicar!”; “Guilty! Guilty as a cocoa bean!” and “My ears are alight” are some of the great misheard lyrics of our time. But now they…

Apple Music launches Friends Mix

Apple Music is launching a brand new music discovery mix called the Friends Mix, which is going to update every Monday. The dynamic new service collages 25 songs that your Apple…

Tim Cook: Music is better than medicine

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been speaking about his thoughts on the growth and changes in the online music industry. Quoted in an interview about Spotify and the state of…

YouTube Finally Gets Streaming Right

With the rise of streaming came the death of iTunes, CDs and any other form of digital download. The launch of Spotify made monthly payments and streaming music the mainstream…

Are more people now subscribed to Apple Music than Spotify in the US?

According to a new report, Apple Music has now surpassed Spotify’s subscriber count in the United States. An anonymous industry source spoke to Digital Music News, claiming Apple Music now has…

Make your own version of Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ album art

In a new promo for Drake’s new album ‘Scorpion’, Apple Music is allowing you to create their own personalized album art based on the album’s cover. Head to Make Your…