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Spotify has released Top Tracks, charts containing the 50 most streamed, shared tunes

Google Play Music All Access is a beautiful, buggy threat to Spotify, but is it the better music streaming service?

Google has launched $10 a month All Access music streaming service with a 30-day free trial and says it will be immediately available in the U.S.; early adopters will pay $8 a month.

Google may announce a streaming music service like Spotify at the Google I/O keynote today in San Francisco.

The Windows Phone 8 app store contains roughly 145,000 apps, which is significantly less than the amount of apps found in both the Google Play and iOS app stores.

For a few hours, a Chrome extension called Downloadify allowed users to steal songs from Spotify. While it may be shut down, there are still other ways to steal music online.

Apple and Volkswagen unveiled the iBeetle this week, a car with deep iPhone integration.

Twitter released a new music app today that aims to help users discover new music.

Rising royalty costs prompt U.S. online streaming music company Pandora Media to limit free mobile listening.

A few lines of code nestled away in Google's most recent update for its YouTube Android application have revealed more about the company's rumored pay-to-view services than it is currently admitting.

Rock and roll superstar Neil Young continued his fight against digital music earlier this week when he compared the widespread acceptability of Internet piracy to the way fans used to discover music on the radio.

The iRadio, Apple's planned radio streaming service akin to Pandora, is reportedly still in the works.

Spotify has removed a feature from its desktop application that allowed users to purchase and download new music in an effort to "simplify" its service.

A significant drop in Instagram's daily active users recorded by AppData after the photo-sharing app announced on Dec. 17 changes in its privacy policy and terms of service may be exaggerated.

Musician and composer Trent Reznor is working with Interscope Records and Beats by Dre to develop a new music-streaming service known as Daisy, the Nine Inch Nails front man revealed in a profile for The New Yorker.

Metallica and Sean Parker ended their feud over music-sharing as the metal band announced it would add its catalog to the popular streaming service.

Spotify is introducing a beta version of its forthcoming browser-based app on Thursday, according to several reports.

Spotify has raised an additional $100 million in its latest round of fundraising including $25 million from high-profile investors like Coca Cola and Fidelity, the New York Times reports.

Spotify is reportedly close to closing a $100M round of financing that would value that company at just over $3B, a $1B drop from its rumored valuation just six months ago.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has announced the launch of a new music-streaming service, Xbox Music, the company’s first attempt to rival today’s major music services such as Spotify and Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes.

Search engine optimization is often discussed as some sort of sneaky journalism practice, but X5 Music Group is proving that a trick or two comes in handy with music sales as well.

Paul Simon once crooned: Every generation sends a hero up the pop charts. But the heroes of the latest generation of young music-hungry consumers are finding it difficult to get them to actually buy their work.

Streaming music service Spotify Ltd. launched a mobile radio feature on Tuesday that connects to Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) ubiquitous iPhones and iPads, encroaching on the turf of online radio provider Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P).

Spotify for the iPad has arrived! Almost 10 months after the arrival of Spotify in the states and two years after the launch of the iPad, the music streaming application has released a big-screen version of itself.

Spotify users are now able to embed playlists and songs using the Spotify Play Button.

Netflix has rapidly expanded its instant streaming offerings in the handful of years since it first branched out from being a Web-based DVD rental service. However, some of the most popular films and TV series, including Game of Thrones, are still unavailable on Netflix, and they may never be if HBO has its way.

Android App Market only recently changed its name to Google Play.

Every year, the Y Combinator Demo Day gives startup companies an opportunity to pitch their incubated startups to the Valley's biggest investors. This edition brings more than 60 companies, and at least one of them is sure to make some waves: Flutter.

Spotify, the music startup that has taken the Internet by storm due in large part to its presence on Facebook, has some good news for those who use the ad-supported version of the service after saying it will continue to offer unlimited music.