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Music streaming service, the Glossary

A music streaming service is a type of online streaming media service that focuses primarily on music, and sometimes other forms of digital audio content such as podcasts.^[1]

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Album-equivalent unit

The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy.

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Amazon Music

Amazon Music (previously Amazon MP3) is a music streaming platform and digital music store operated by Amazon. Music streaming service and Amazon Music are music streaming services.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists. Music streaming service and Apple Music are music streaming services.

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Beatport

Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle.

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Beats Electronics

Beats Electronics LLC (also known as Beats by Dr. Dre, or simply Beats by Dre) is an American consumer audio products manufacturer headquartered in Culver City, California.

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Beats Music

Beats Music was a subscription-based music streaming service owned by the Beats Electronics division of Apple Inc. The service combined algorithmic personalization with curated music suggestions. Music streaming service and Beats Music are music streaming services.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Comparison of music streaming services

The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services. Music streaming service and Comparison of music streaming services are music streaming services.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Consequence (publication)

Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York–based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Cross/CrossDJ

Cross/CrossDJ is a digital vinyl and DJ mixing software developed by the French company Mixvibes.

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Daniel Ek

Daniel Georg Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish businessman and technologist.

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Deezer

Deezer is a French music streaming service founded in 2007. Music streaming service and Deezer are music streaming services.

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Digital audio

Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software. Music streaming service and digital distribution are music streaming services.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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File sharing

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.

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Gangnam Style

"Gangnam Style" (강남스타일) is a K-pop song by South Korean rapper Psy, released on July 15, 2012, by YG Entertainment as the lead single of his sixth studio album, Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 (Ssai Yukgap Part 1).

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Georgia Public Broadcasting

Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is a state network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Google Play Music

Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. Music streaming service and Google Play Music are music streaming services.

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Groove Music

Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music or Zune Music Pass) is a discontinued audio player software application included with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Music streaming service and Groove Music are music streaming services.

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Independent music

Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.

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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide.

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Internet radio

Internet radio, also known as Online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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K-pop

K-pop, short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture.

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Kazaa

Kazaa Media Desktop. (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd.

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Like button

A like button, like option, or recommend button is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs where the user can express that they like, enjoy or support certain content.

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List of most-viewed YouTube videos

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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List of YouTube Premium original programming

YouTube Premium, formerly known as YouTube Red, is a subscription service that provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, offline play and background playback of videos on mobile devices, access to advertising-free music streaming through YouTube Music, and access to "YouTube Original" series and films.

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Mobile app

A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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MP3.com

MP3.com was a website operated by Paramount Global publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music download

A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. Music streaming service and music download are recorded music.

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Music Genome Project

The Music Genome Project is a musical analysis project seeking to "capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level" using various attributes to describe songs and mathematics to connect them together into an interactive map.

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Music on demand

Music-on-demand (MOD) is a music recording industry certified multi-billion dollar music distribution & subscriber-based industry model conceived with the growth of two-way computing and telecommunications in the early 1990s.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.

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Myspace

Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.

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Napster

Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Online advertising

Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.

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Online video platform

An online video platform (OVP) enables users to upload, convert, store, and play back video content on the Internet, often via a private server structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue.

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Pandora (service)

Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by the broadcasting corporation Sirius XM that is presently based in Oakland, California inside of the United States. Music streaming service and Pandora (service) are music streaming services.

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Peer-to-peer file sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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PeopleSound

PeopleSound was a British audio streaming platform founded on 22 June 1999 by Ernesto Schmitt. Music streaming service and PeopleSound are music streaming services.

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Playlist

A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Psy

Park Jae-sang (born December 31, 1977), better known by his stage name Psy, is a South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Recommender system

A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing system with terms such as platform, engine, or algorithm), is a subclass of information filtering system that provides suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular user.

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Record chart

A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time.

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Ripping

Ripping is the extraction of digital content from a container, such as a CD, onto a new digital location.

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Royalty payment

A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

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SACEM

The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music or SACEM is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers, and music publishers.

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Serato

Serato (stylized in all lowercase) is a music software company founded in 1998 in Auckland, New Zealand by Steve West and AJ Bertenshaw.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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SoundExchange

SoundExchange is an American non-profit collective rights management organization spun off from the RIAA in 2003.

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Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. Music streaming service and Spotify are music streaming services.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Streaming Songs

The Streaming Songs chart is released weekly by Billboard magazine and lists each week's top streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Joe Rogan Experience

The Joe Rogan Experience is a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan.

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The Ringer (website)

The Ringer is a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, founded by sportswriter Bill Simmons in 2016 and owned by Spotify since 2020.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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Tidal (service)

Tidal (stylized TIDAL) is a Norwegian-American music streaming service, launched in 2014 by the Norwegian-Swedish public company Aspiro. Music streaming service and Tidal (service) are music streaming services.

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Traktor

Traktor is DJ software developed by Native Instruments.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc.

UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Viral video

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.

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Vivendi

Vivendi SE is a French mass-media holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_streaming_service

Also known as Music streaming, Music streaming platform, Music streaming services, Online Music Streaming, Stream music, Streaming (music), Streaming music.

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