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Spotify also has a web player (open.spotify.com). [234] Offline Music listening is possible on watchOS [235] and more recently added to Google's WearOS [236] for those with premium subscriptions. Unlike the apps, the web player does not have the ability to download music for offline listening.
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Google Play Music Music locker, store, and streaming service debuted in May 2011, and shut down October 2020. Google has replaced Play Music with YouTube Music. [32] Groove Music by Microsoft debuted in 2015, linking Microsoft's Groove music player to OneDrive cloud storage. It allowed storing up to 5 GB of music in AAC, MP3 and WMA formats.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 864 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 135 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
Succeeded by Beats Music and subsequently Apple Music [87] [99] 21 January 2015: Songza: Merged into Google Play Music [100] and subsequently into YouTube Music: 21 October 2014: Ubuntu One Music: Discontinued [101] 2 April 2014: Zune Pass: Succeeded by Xbox Music Pass and subsequently by Groove Music Pass [102] 15 October 2012: Mflow ...
On August 31, 2016, Music Business Worldwide reported that Spotify, headed by Daniel Ek, was paying musicians "a flat fee" for tracks of various genres—such as "jazz, chill and peaceful piano playing"—to be listed under fabricated names. Although the publication was unable to report precisely which artists on the music platform were fake ...
Google Play Music: 2011 15000 Trial-ware: 50,000 General United States: Jamendo: 2005 400000 Free — General Luxembourg: Live Music Archive: 1996 170000 Free — General United States: Musopen: 2005 — Free — Classical music: United States: Noise Trade: 2008 — Free 1.3000000 General United States: SoundCloud: 2007 125000000 Free 40000000 ...
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. The service was announced on May 10, 2011; after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on November 16, 2011, and shut down in December 2020.