A platform that launched the careers of artists in a variety of genres, SoundCloud, has had its fair share of unstableness over the past couple of years. With a large proportion of its employees and serious financial instability, the company needed a serious overhaul. After 2017, however, the company increased its revenues by more than 80 percent to around $102 million and … [Read more...]
SoundCloud Unveils Their Year In Review With 2018 Playback And 2019 Artists To Watch Playlists
SoundCloud's second annual year in review playlists have just arrived. This year, Juice WRLD was named SoundCloud's Top Artist, receiving the most likes, reposts, and streams, with his single "Lucid Dreams" nabbing the year's Top Track with over 124 million streams in just six months. Illenium's remix of The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down" was named the Top Remix of the year, … [Read more...]
ReauBeau Delivers Powerful Release with ‘Enough’ on Trap City
ReauBeau delivers once again a huge track with 'Enough'. The track released on Spinnin Records' imprint Trap City Records is the first big solo release of the Dutch Future Bass artist. 'Enough' is a perfect blend of poppy vocals mixed with raw punches and Future Bass vibes, and it's a great fit for your daily work out playlists, to listen to while travelling or just to blast … [Read more...]
Soundcloud Looks To Be Saved With An Injection Of Capital And Change Of Leadership
The saga of Soundcloud appears to have taken a turn for the positive as they appear to have received $169.5 million dollars from merchant bank The Raine Group and investment firm Temasek. Along with this deal, however, come changes to the board with co-founder and CEO of the company Alexander Ljung being usurped for former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor. Ljung will still lead on as … [Read more...]
Someone On Reddit Just Downloaded The Entirety Of The Soundcloud And Made It Publicly Available
With all the back and forth about Soundcloud closing down, one proactive Redditor decided to assume the mantle of Soundcloud librarian and download the entire thing. Now apparently, the entirety of Soundcloud is 900TB so this guy/gal has hit songs such as The Macklrena and Harlem Gangam Style saved on their computer or most likely servers. Without a doubt, regardless of what … [Read more...]
Soundcloud Releases Statement As Panic Spreads After Reports Of A Possible Shut Down in 50 Days
Whether it be the blog world or your personal Facebook feed, the news of Soundcloud's collapse in the next 50 days has spread far and wide. News of this collapse came from a recent article on Techcrunch and was based on a statement from two recently laid off Soundcloud employees. Now it isn't entirely absurd to think that Soundcloud is on the verge of collapse, especially after … [Read more...]
Boombox Cartel’s Soundcloud Account Just Got Deleted
Welp. If you've been following Soundcloud for the past year you probably know they've had their fair share of controversy, mostly for accidentally deleting high-profile artist accounts under mistaken copyright claims. The platform's latest takedown victims are Boombox Cartel, as the duo took to twitter today sarcastically thanking soundcloud for the deletion. See the tweets … [Read more...]
Soundcloud to Start Paying Artists More
Soundcloud announced yesterday that artists will be able to start making money off of mixes and remixes, a feature that was previously unavailable. As of yesterday the streaming platform has expanded it's invite only revenue sharing system to include channels that upload "recorded and live sets, remixes, and other user-generated content." Soundcloud has had many public … [Read more...]
