Via Mashable
Facebook intends to launch its long-rumored music service next month with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company’s launch partners, Mashable has learned.
The music and media platform will be announced at Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Sept. 22. It will allow users to listen to music from within Facebook.com. Evidence of Facebook’s music platformfirst surfaced in the code of Facebook’s video chat service.
Via wired.co.uk
Hot off its American debut, music streaming service Spotify hasopened up its API to iOS developers, so app makers can tap into the 15 million song archive in their own iPhone and iPad creations.
It means creators could make music visualisation tools for your library of tunes, alarm clocks that switch on a Spotify playlist at 8am, apps that feature a curated slice of the gargantuan multi-million song archive, or simply a native iPad version of the streaming service — which Spotify has so far failed to provide.
“We hope this will enable a new category of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch applications with Spotify inside,” writes platform director Sten Garmark, “and allow for more immersive music experiences within iOS apps.”
HotSpotify celebrates the US-launch of Spotify by sharing Spotify Free invitations.
We give away 4 invites next monday to people who follow us and retweet our “Win a Spotify Free Invite” tweet.
So grab your chance and you might be the lucky one!
Billboard Album Chart on Spotify updated today.
Beyoncé – 4- Adele – 21
- Selena Gomez & The Scene – When The Sun Goes Down
- Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party
- Bad Meets Evil – Hell: The Sequel
- Jackie Evancho – Dream With Me
- Jill Scott – The Light Of The Sun
- Lady Gaga – Born This Way
- Big Sean – Finally Famous
- Lloyd – King of Hearts
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver
- Justin Moore
- NOW 38
- Brad Paisley – This Is Country Music
- Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
- Pitbull – Planet Pit (Deluxe Version)
- Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
- Zac Brown Band – You Get What You Give
- Scotty McReery
- Taylor Swift – Speak Now
- Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans
- Adele – 19
- Various Artists – Rave On Buddy Holly
- The Band Perry – The Band Perry
- Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
- David Cook – This Loud Morning
- NOW Country
- Lemonade Mouth – Lemonade Mouth
- Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
- Gillian Welch
- Foster The People – Torches
- Rihanna – Loud
- Florence + The Machine – Lungs
- Eminem – Recovery
- Lauren Alaina
- Blake Shelton – Loaded: The Best Of
- Haley Reinhart
- James Durbin
- Chris Brown – F.A.M.E. (Deluxe Version)
- Ledisi – Pieces Of Me
Added two new albums to the Spotify-list of ”best new albums” on Pitchfork.
araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream [8.2 /review]
John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors … [8.4 / review]
Older “Best New Albums”:
iceage – New Brigade [8.4 /review]
WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain [8.4 / review]
Bon Iver – Bon Iver [9.5 / review]
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life [8.6 / review]
Cults – Cults [8.5 / review]
The Antlers – Burst Apart [8.2 / review]
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints [8.5 / review]
Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact [8.5 / review]
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues [8.8 / review]
Cass McCombs – WIT’S END [8.4 / review]
Tune-Yards – W H O K I L L [8.8 / review]
Panda Bear – Tomboy [8.5 / review]
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong [8.2 /review]
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo [8.4 / review]
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes [8.3 / review]
Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine [8.4 / review]
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 [8.6/ review]
Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise [8.4 / review]
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake [8.8 / review]
James Blake – James Blake [9.0/ review]
Cut Copy – Zonoscope [8.6 / review]
First, there only was a sampler.
Now, the whole new album by Arctic Monkeys is available on Spotify:
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See
Nice!
Music of all Harry Potter movies on Spotify:
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Deathly Hallows
The Deathly Hallows Part II
Various – Harry Potter – The Deathly Hallows Part II (Score)
Incubus – If Not Now, When? (Rock)
Colbie Caillat – All Of You (Pop)
Zomby – Dedication (Dance / Electronic)
Earth Crisis – Neutralize The Threat (Metal)
Theory Of A Deadman – The Truth Is… (Rock)
Today, team HotSpotify played at the VCH Beachvolleyball Tournament (Hoofddorp, The Netherlands). The team did not make it to the finals, but we were very proud about the performance.
Via HypeBot
Spotify is telling U.S. record label executives that it is hoping to launch its music streaming service here as early as the middle of next week, sources familiar with the situation are telling the Wall Street Journal. Leaked marketing materials obtained by another media source revealed that Spotify believes that consumer acceptance in U.S. will be quick and substantial.
At launch 150 million Facebook users “will start to see music on their feeds. One click and they can have Spotify,” according to documents obtained by All Things Digital. Advertisers will be able to use Spotify to build “music apps” on sites and on Facebook.
Spotify is telling those advertisers that they will reach 50 million subscribers in it’s first year in the U.S. That’s a very aggressive goal for a company that now has just 1 million subscribers in Europe and would represent 16% of the entire U.S. population. “Press coverage is with certainty expected to be big,” Spotify is telling potential launch sponsors. Whether or not consumers are still paying attention after two years of media frenzy remains to be seen.
