{"id":9321,"date":"2015-12-15T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:15:56","slug":"how-did-streaming-services-do-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-did-streaming-services-do-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Streaming Services Do In 2015?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>\u00a0have released a &#8220;scorecard&#8221; that pits the pros, cons and secret weapons of various streaming service against each other to see how they fared in the highly competitive year of 2015.<\/h4>\n<p>Included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/news\/digital-and-mobile\/6805619\/how-streaming-services-scored-in-musics-fiercely\">Billboard&#8217;s &#8220;Streaming Scorecard&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0are front-runners Spotify, newcomers Tidal and Apple Music, surprise success Amazon Music and then America&#8217;s current favourite Pandora. The scorecard covers Apple Music&#8217;s success with it&#8217;s global, 24-7 online radio Beats 1, specifically the head and face of Beats 1, ex-BBC DJ Zane Lowe.<\/p>\n<p>It also covers the surprisingly large subscriber base for Amazon Prime Music as well as Spotify&#8217;s pole position in users and value.\u00a0The chart then closes with an &#8216;outlook&#8217; for each streaming service , in the form of weather metaphors&#8230; fun!<\/p>\n<p>Take a look for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9322 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard\"s Streaming Scorecard\" width=\"1240\" height=\"2053\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01-272x450.jpg 272w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01-618x1024.jpg 618w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01-1000x1656.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BB29-streaming-scoreboard-01-800x1325.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard\u00a0have released a &#8220;scorecard&#8221; that pits the pros, cons and secret weapons of various streaming service against each other to see how they fared in the highly competitive year of 2015. 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It also covers the surprisingly large subscriber base for Amazon Prime Music as well as Spotify&#8217;s pole position in users and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[834,28,6423,6031,422,229],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Did Streaming Services Do In 2015? - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Billboard have released a &quot;scorecard&quot; that pits the pros, cons and secret weapons of various streaming service against each other to see how they fared in the highly competitive year of 2015.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-did-streaming-services-do-in-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Did Streaming Services Do In 2015? 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