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Online music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that it’s launching a series of integrated apps from various partners. These include apps from entities like Rolling Stone and Billboard and Songkick. “We’ve turned Spotify into this platform,” company CEO and founder Daniel Ek told an audience in New York.
More than 200 labels held by content distributor ST Holdings have decamped Spotify, Simfy, Rdio and Napster recently over concerns the digital music streaming services’ business models are detrimental to sales. Most of the labels involved are relatively small.
In an effort to compete in the digital music market against giants Apple and Amazon, Google debuted its online music store Wednesday, where users can purchase and stream songs through the search giant’s Android market. It also opened its free online music locker service to all users.
Rumblefish and APM Music are teaming up to offer an online catalog of popular music and soundtracks to consumers looking to legally add sound to personal video content such as YouTube videos, slideshows or presentations. The partnership, announced Thursday, combines Rumblefish’s experience with social media users and APM’s vast online catalog of popular music.
Research In Motion is launching a music app for BlackBerry users that it hopes will spread via its incentives for users to share songs by BlackBerry Messenger. Called "BBM Music," the service is rolling out in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, with more countries expected to go online later.