

According to Wikipedia, Soundcloud comes in number one with over 175 million users, followed by Spotify (100 m), Pandora (77 m), Netease Cloud Music (55 m), iHeart Radio (48 m), Slacker (26 m), Guvera (17 m), Apple Music (>15 m), Saavn (11 m), and Amazon Prime Music (<10 m) which are the top ten music streaming services. With so many to choose from, which music streaming service should you choose? First let’s narrow this large field to the most popular ones. Today, streaming is king.” Spotify is probably the most well-known streaming service.Īccording to Wikipedia there are 71 streaming music services available.

As Consumer Reports, notes, “Earlier this year, members of the Recording Industry Association of America reported that music streaming services now represent their biggest source of revenue, edging ahead of digital downloads, CDs, and vinyl records in sales.” c/net put it this way, “Like CDs before it, MP3s are becoming obsolete. What is a streaming music service? Just as NetFlix offers movies and TV shows for a set monthly price, a streaming music service does the same for music falling under the heading ‘ streaming media.’ This has grown in popularity and is now fairly accepted as mainstream, but some are still purchasing music the old fashioned way of one title or album at a time by either a hard copy, CD (or DVD) or digital downloads (i.e., MP3, AAC, MPEG-4, etc).
