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The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones & connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.

The first music "streaming" service was invented in 1897. People in New York could call up the Telharmonium, an electric organ that took up the entire floor of a building, which would play live music through their phone speakers.

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1. That, based solely on revenue, video gaming is the most popular form of entertainment. In 2017, the gaming industry had revenue of about $116 billion, compared with $105 billion for TV and streaming services, $41 billion for movies and $17 billion for music.

2. While Taylor Swift made $2.4 million through music streaming in 2018, she made $266 million in touring revenue that same year.

3. Apple deletes/steals your stored music when you are a member of its music subscription and replaces it with streaming versions.

4. During the Napster controversy, The Offspring wanted to release their upcoming album “Conspiracy of One” entirely online for free, but couldn’t due to legal threats from Sony. A few years later, they put up a dedicated radio stream of all their music on their site for free.

5. About Longplayer, a composition comprised of six short pieces of music designed to play without repetition for 1,000 years. It began playing at midnight on 31 December 1999. Its permanent home is Trinity Bouy Wharf in London, and it can be streamed online.

6. The 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" predicted the Internet with interconnected "logics" that could play music, make phone calls, and stream "vision programs."

7. The North American Co. utility conglomerate launched a subscription streaming music service in New York in 1922. Wired Radio Inc. used electrical wires to deliver music to customers' homes. It eventually morphed into the Muzak background music service for businesses.

8. Music streaming dates back to the early 1900s, with the Dynamophone being used to transmit audio via telegram wires. The service was called the Telharmonium.

9. Over 100 years before modern music streaming services were invented, Thaddeus Cahill introduced the first 24-hour "music through your telephone" service called the Telharmonium

10. Spotify uses a system of fake artists "playing" music composed by ghostwriters to fill in their genre playlists. Spotify pays for these rights up-front and therefore avoids the streaming royalties that come along with the large number of plays.

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Xbox 360 gave gamers the added ability to watch movies, listen to music, and stream with their consoles.

Frank Zappa predicted the coming of Spotify and other streaming music services back in 1988 - source

The Telharmonium which streamed music to phones in the early 1900s - source

A subscription based music streaming service was created in 1909.

Alternative metal band Tool refuses to allow their music to be streamed on services such as spotify and itunes due to wanting proper compensation in the music industry. - source

TIDAL, a music streaming service owned mostly by Jay-Z, was accused of deliberately inflating streaming numbers for Beyonce's album "Lemonade" and Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" by more than 300 million plays in 2016 based on study by NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security.

They Might Be Giants basically invented streaming music with "Dial-a-Song"

Theres a Band called "Buried in Verona" which, before releasing their Album, printed out hundreds/thousands of letters on a live-stream, containing fears and sorrows written down by people who bought it, and then continued burning each of those letters in one of their music videos.

Jean Triples- a Musical Artist - is under the Record Label “837095 Records DK.” His Genre is Hip-hop/Rap, and the Artist has 3 Albums and one EP out on every single music streaming service in the world- all at an astonishing 18 years of age. This was his first Music Video- shot on a $0 budget.

Metallica released a music video for each song off of their new album making it far easier to stream the album as a whole for free

Yahoo had a music streaming service for $6 a month all the way back in 2005. The service shut down in 2008 and merged into Rhapsody (now Napster). Steve Jobs, after 'Music Unlimited' was announced, said that the pricing was "substantially below their costs".

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