Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. As December arrives, it seems as if every platform in the ...

SoundCloud stands as a unique platform where burgeoning musicians find their voice and rising talents break through the noise. This happens on many streaming music sites, but SoundCloud is still where ...

The genre is expected to account for nearly 22% of all plays on the streaming platform in 2024, the company says. By Katie Bain On Thursday (Oct. 17) at the Amsterdam Dance Event, representatives from ...

SoundCloud announced Wednesday that it has acquired Nina Protocol, a decentralized music platform that enabled independent artists to sell music directly to fans while keeping 100% of their revenue.

SoundCloud made a name for itself among the landscape of music streaming services as the one where creators themselves uploaded music and other sound recordings — picking up the moniker “the YouTube ...

SoundCloud has altered its platform policies to require opt-ins for training generative AI models with artists’ music following widespread user backlash, the company announced today in a letter from ...

Some of the best ideas are also the simplest. And there are few things more simple than SoundCloud, which in its seven year existence has sneakily become one of the best things online. How’d it get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soundcloud issued a statement this weekend, addressing a story that began circulating a few days ...

SoundCloud listeners, get ready to hear something new: advertising. The “YouTube for audio” joined a fast-growing list of streaming-music companies parading new ways for artists to get paid through ...

For the last few months, as he's been working on, tinkering with, and constantly updating his new album, The Life of Pablo, Kanye West has been dropping tracks and snippets onto the music-sharing ...

If Spotify is the Netflix of music, SoundCloud is more like YouTube — a service that lets everyone, from Drake to your college roommate, share their creativity with the world. Unlike any of those ...