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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
For streaming services where a person is unable to upload their own music, but is limited to music provided by the service, such as Pandora Radio and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services.
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [3] Initially, Napster was envisioned by Fanning as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. [4]
In 2002, Roxio bought the assets of the original Napster at its bankruptcy auction and acquired PressPlay in May 2003 for $40 million. [5] After integrating the services, Roxio launched a revamped Napster in October 2003, whereby users were able to download songs a-la-carte or pay for a monthly unlimited download and streaming media service.
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 ...
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.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 902 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 151 have surpassed two billion, 18 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.