Spotify went up 50% in sales to $3.1B in 2016. Doubled users. 50M paying. 90M free. 140M total. For end of 2016 I assume. However 90% of revenue is from paying customers. Advertising did also go up 50% but being just 10% is weak af. They must be losing a lot of money on free users because of the payouts they'd have to be doing. They need to curtail free user features more soon. #media_companies #music #music_industry #spotify #streaming #pub

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SoundCloud needs a shit load of funding to continue. The funding would give over 50% of the company to the funders. So basically the entire company at that point, like 80% would be owned by investors prob. They also recently laid off 40%. They want $169.5M at pre-money $150M valuation. So valuation of $319.5M. It was previously worth like $700M or so from total of $230M in funding. #soundcloud #music #music_streaming #bankruptcy #funding #pub

Shazam. Bam! In 2017, Shazam has a tv show on Fox that is renewed for season 2. #billion_dollar_startup_club #unicorns #music #startups #funding #news #pub

They did $60M funding a few years before 2017 at like $600M valuation. So this $75M is at $800M valuation. #year:2017 #funding #music #startups #AI #almost_unicorns #pub

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I don't think I'd work out As a best friend I don't want to hold you down I know there's someone better for you I don't want to be around When you've gotta go #best_of #lyrics #music #pub

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