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Eddy Cue profile outlines early tensions within Apple Music
It’s no secret that the early days of Apple’s iTunes and Beats Electronics’ Beats Music teams working together weren’t entirely plain sailing. A new profile of Apple exec Eddy Cue by tech […]
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Apple Music now has 38m subscribers and 8m trial users
In early February, Apple revealed that its Apple Music streaming service had 36 million subscribers. A month on, and that figure has increased to 38 million.
The new figure was provided by the company’s SVP of internet software and services Eddy Cue during his appearance at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
It’s a significant announcement, because adding two million subscribers in a month suggests Apple Music is now matching the growth-rate of Spotify.
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Apple’s Eddy Cue: long-term exclusives ‘never good’ for music industry
Sorry, no new Apple Music stats to report from Eddy Cue’s appearance at the Code Media conference overnight: the official figure remains 20 million subscribers, although Cue did make it clear that Apple Music’s growth has continued since that milestone was announced in early December.
“We’re well past 20 million, we haven’t announced the latest number but we’re thrilled with it. It’s the fastest growing subscription service we know of, whether it’s video, music… in its first 15 months,” he said.
“The world today has less than 100 million people subscribing to music, and there’s billions of people listening to music, so we still think the potential for growth is exponential. So no, we’re not satisfied and we want a lot more.”
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Apple Music to distribute Carpool Karaoke series
Apple’s moves to bolster the video content available on Apple Music continue: this time with a deal for CBS Television’s Carpool Karaoke.
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Apple fuels YouTube fire but defends downloads decline
Apple has waded in to the music industry’s debate about the value of YouTube. Apple Music chief creative officer Trent Reznor addressed the topic in an interview with Billboard this week at the WWDC event, and made his views clear.
“Personally, I find YouTube’s business to be very disingenuous. It is built on the backs of free, stolen content and that’s how they got that big,” said Reznor.
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Ian Rogers on Beats 1 and Apple Music launch times; Sonos integration coming
Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine have dominated all the interviews and public discussions around Apple Music and Beats 1. Ian Rogers is a key part of that team but has […]
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Apple accused of deleting songs from users’ iPods
Not now, obviously: between 2007 and 2009. This, at least, was the claim made yesterday as part of the lawsuit over Apple’s iTunes DRM in the late noughties. According to […]
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U2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ reaches 26m iTunes downloads
Apple has been sharing some more stats on the new U2 album, which it made available as a free download – and controversially, in some cases, pushed to people’s iOS […]
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Steve Jobs’ biographer suggests Jimmy Iovine could be Apple’s next content star
After endless online analysis of Apple’s $3.2bn deal to buy Beats, it still hasn’t actually been announced. Still, there’s more speculation to plug the news gap, including from the late […]
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Apple’s iTunes boss profiled: ‘Eddy did a lot of bad cop too…’
The spotlight is shining this week on Apple’s Eddy Cue, who made his name as boss of the company’s iTunes Store, but now oversees all of Apple’s internet services.
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Apple iOS boss Forstall out, Cue/Ive get new responsibilities
Apple has announced a management shakeup, with its senior vice president of iOS software Scott Forstall leaving the company.