{"id":90124,"date":"2016-09-29T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=90124"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:38:36","slug":"spotify-buying-soundcloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/spotify-buying-soundcloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What?! Spotify Might Be Buying This Music Streaming Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d03bedbe-85bb-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5.html?siteedition=intl#axzz4LfNqLeiz\" target=\"_blank\">currently in &#8220;advanced talks&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0to buy SoundCloud.<\/p>\n<p>While it has yet to be confirmed by both streaming services, this could change the future of digital music. Spotify&#8217;s potential deal emerged\u00a0as competition has been building up with\u00a0other subscription-based music streaming services like Apple and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d03bedbe-85bb-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5.html?siteedition=intl#axzz4LfNqLeiz\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a><\/em>, SoundCloud is valued at around $700 million, but it&#8217;s not certain how much Spotify would pay to acquire one of their competitors. This deal makes sense to many because\u00a0SoundCloud has never turned a profit, despite their 200 million users. However, combined with Spotify&#8217;s 40 million paying subscribers, both services could potentially\u00a0beat out other services.<\/p>\n<p>As for current users of Spotify and SoundCloud, this could mean tons more music and\u00a0exclusive content (like DJ sets and dance music).<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Spotify is currently in \"advanced talks\"\u00a0to buy SoundCloud. While it has yet to be confirmed ...","author":422344,"featured_media":90127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/29103026\/shutterstock_200035424-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/29103026\/shutterstock_200035424.jpg","formated_date":"September 29, 2016","category_name":"Tech","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113850\/technology-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#bf11bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}