October 16, 2009 – 12:25 pm
We are currently loving GrooveShark in the Downtuned office – it may well replace Spotify in our hearts as ‘most favouritist music service ever’.
And rather than banging on about how good it is ourself, we talked to GrooveShark’s CEO Sam Tarantino to ask him a few questions about his wonderful app.
Can you let us know the differences between Spotify and your service? Do you have more (or different) artists?
Although there are many similarities there are very key differences. We are a Web app vs their desktop app. They focus very heavily on the consumer while we have put a significant effort and resources towards pushing artists and the back-end. Our fundamental goal is to be able to play any song anywhere from any device. We also have long tail content so anyone in the world can upload their song that they wrote in their garage or the mountains of nepal, get it heard worldwide, and use our promo network to build a fan base around it.
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October 15, 2009 – 9:19 am
Another nail in the coffin for ‘traditional’ music release methods as GrooveShark (think an in-browser Spotify with a slightly different catalogue) has signed a deal with EMI to offer their music to GrooveShark users. Grooveshark is free to users, but a $3 per month premium gets rid of all that. Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino says…
EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing have collaborated with us to create a mutually sustainable deal which represents the future of digital music, we will continue to deliver the best music service on the Internet to our users, and we will expand our capacity to strengthen fan-to-artist connections through our technology.
Blah blah – what this really means is the Labels are running scared of the really good streaming services and rather than bury their heads in the sand or take them on in the courts they are actually doing a clever thing and working with them.
About bloody time.
Also – GrooveShark is ace.
