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Replaced by PlayStation Music powered by Spotify. [96] 29 March 2015: Musicovery: Shut down the interactive radio service and now a music playlist supplier. 2 January 2017: Electric Jukebox: Succeeded by ROXi: 1 August 2017: WiMP: Integrated into Tidal [97] 23 March 2015: Simfy: Shut down. Temporarily, the website referred users to Deezer. [98 ...
Rhapsody was the first streaming on-demand music subscription service to offer unlimited access to a large library of digital music for a flat monthly fee, [11] a concept advocated by business theories such as the Open Music Model. At launch, Rhapsody's library was formed of content mostly from Naxos Records and several
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
In December 2001, Rhapsody was launched by the startup Listen.com, becoming the first service to offer subscription-based streaming access to a library of music online. [15] Initially limited to content from independent labels such as Naxos , it later reached agreements to stream music from the "big five" major labels. [ 16 ]
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.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 855 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 129 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
Spotify allows users to add local audio files for music not in its catalog into the user's library through Spotify's desktop application, and then allows users to synchronize those music files to Spotify's mobile apps or other computers over the same Wi-Fi network as the primary computer by creating a Spotify playlist, and adding those local ...
While Spotify does have a free listening option, Spotify Premium offers ad-free listening, offline listening, and the ability to play songs in any order. Spotify monthly plans start at $5.99/month ...