Spinlet Finally Launches Its Music Streaming Apps
After a long, long, wait, Spinlet has finally released its music streaming apps for Android, BlackBerry and Nokia Series 60 phones. To download Spinlet on your device, point your browser to Spinlet’s website and follow the instructions. For BlackBerry Torch users, Spinlet’s app isn’t available for your device yet. Try it out and tell us what you think Source:... Read More
Iroko Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Gbedu.fm
With recent funding of $8million, Iroko Partners has announced an acquisition of a 50% majority stake in new music streaming startup Gbedu.fm. Iroko Partners is clearly trying to calm down the competition. It’s important to note that Gbedu.fm has no source of revenue at the moment so we’ll expect to see ads soon or a subscription model from them. iROKING already has... Read More
iROKING For iOS Released [SCREENSHOTS]
Music streaming service, iROKING has released an iOS app. The app is basically iROKING on your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. The app lets you search for music by track, artist and album. It also synchronises your playlists between your computer and your iOS device. The best part – offline functionality. So you can listen to music when you’re off the internet. You can... Read More
Spinlet To Showcase Artistes At Its All Africa Showcase At SXSW
If you’re African or you love African music, music streaming service, Spinlet is bringing the top music stars from across the continent to South By South West. The All Africa Showcase is co-sponsored by Society HAE. If you’re at SXSW or you’re following it online, the following artistes will be performing at Spinlet’s events. On Thursday, the 15th of... Read More
OO Nwoye’s Gbedu.fm Is The Latest Music Streaming Service For Nigerians[SCREENSHOTS]
I was just trolling on the web a few days ago, and I saw a tweet from @oothenigerian. He was back! For all of us techies who follow him, we know he’s been off for ages. He posted a link to Gbedu.fm a music streaming service that allows users stream music via a Facebook login. Gbedu.fm is Spotify for Nigerians. If you’re reading this you might be thinking “OO is... Read More
RIM Adds New Features To BBM Music, Get Up to 6 Months Free Subscription
RIM is beginning to push its BBM Music platform. The app is currently avaiable for download in Canada, the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Australia. For US and Canada users, RIM is offereing 4 months free subscription while users in the UK, Spain & Italy get up to 6 months free. Apart from the ability to add BBM contacts as BBM Music contacts... Read More
Nicki Minaj Breaks VEVO Record
Following the release of Nicki Minaj’s unsurprisingly weird ‘Stupid Hoe’ video on VEVO last week, the female rapper set a new record for most views in a day. Beat that beliebers! The video premiered on Jan. 20 and got some 4.8 million views in 24 hours. Perhaps from people playing it over again trying to make sense of it? You can watch the Hype Williams directed... Read More
Etisalat Launches UrFilez Music Streaming Service For Nigeria
Etisalat has launched UrFilez in Nigeria; a mobile music streaming service that allows you listen to and discover music. The service also allows you create and share stations like on Last.fm or you can listen to any of the artistes’ stations. UrFilez has over 4,000,000 songs in its library. UrFilez has also been launched in 17 other countries where Etisalat has presence.... Read More
Anonymous Hits MPAA, RIAA and Universal Music Websites
In their campaign to get megaupload back on the web, the hacking group Anonymous has also admitted responsibility for taking down the Motion Picture Association of America’s website at mpaa.org as well as the Recording Industry Association of America at riaa.org and Universal Music’s website at universalmusic.com. #OpPayback – Recording Industry Association of... Read More
Spinlet Signs More Artists To Its Service
Music streaming and download service Spinlet, has announced the signing of non-exclusive agreements with more artists and record labels. The agreement puts Spinlet back in the music streaming game and will help artists distribute and sell music on its platform when it finally launches. Some of the artists and record labels are Alapomeji Records (9ice), Chocolate City (Brymo, M.I,... Read More
