Apple Music

Excluding a one-time payment, Apple’s services revenue rose 27 percent during the September quarter to $9.981 billion, aided by the company’s usual suspects but in no small part by a sharp rise in Apple Pay transactions.
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Apple Music has pulled ahead of Spotify in the U.S. market, a major music distributor claims, with Apple’s streaming service said to have overtaken its main rival in terms of the number of paid subscribers from the United States.
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Scorpion, Drake’s fifth album, has smashed through his own single-day streaming record on Apple Music with more than 170 million streams in its first 24 hours. Spotify reportedly only reached about 76 percent of that traffic, despite claiming 120 million more users.
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As with any other gadget, the term “wireless speaker” is loaded with sometimes confusing categories. AppleInsider breaks them down and talks about how to pick what features you need, and which speaker you may want.
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Apple has acquired global rights to a new documentary called Songwriter, which follows singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran through much of 2016 as he evolves his unique style.
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In a bid to capture one of the more neglected genres in music streaming — country — Apple has announced plans to set up a new team at the epicenter of the style, Nashville.
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The European Commission is investigating the proposed acquisition of Shazam by Apple, with competition concerns lengthening the time it will take for the regulator to approve or deny the purchase of the song recognition service by the iPhone manufacturer.
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Rap star J. Cole has reportedly smashed the Apple Music record for streams in a single day, thanks to his new album, “KOD.”
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Apple’s upcoming morning show drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon is expected to get a new showrunner after creator Jay Carson left the project due to “creative differences.”
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The new EP by pop/R&B singer The Weeknd managed over 26 million streams within 24 hours on Apple Music, Apple said on Tuesday, some 6 million of those belonging to the song “Call Out My Name.”
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