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• #Turn on slacker radio full

To research all 102 services we reviewed, visit the music streaming topic on FindTheBest. We’ll count down the top 10 services based on consumer awareness, and comment on the strengths and weaknesses for each.įor a comparison of the specific features and pricing for 13 of the most popular services, see the earlier TIME story here. We looked at brand awareness and listener penetration from a 2014 Edison Research study to determine which services are on consumers’ minds…and which aren’t. So how do you stand out in a field with 101 similar-to-identical competitors? It comes down to brand. If you like, you can distinguish between on-demand services (like Spotify) that let you pick each song, and radio services (like Pandora) that choose songs for you, but the overall concept is similar: unlimited music for a low monthly fee. So just how widespread is the trend?Īt FindTheBest, we counted a total of 102 separate services (counting basic and premium versions separately) that let you stream music (typically) from $0 – $10 per month. and a collection of stories by one of our best known slacker authors.

#Turn on slacker radio full

Even Apple-whose pay-per-song iTunes once seemed like the future-has doubled-down on iTunes Radio, its music-streaming Pandora competitor. Three new books on power and excess read like novels, full of larger than life. Until now, your only option for listening to Slacker on the go was Slacker. Yes, illegal music-downloading is still rampant, but as far as legal music-listening goes, streaming services are the new fad. Im a longtime fan of Slacker, a Web-based radio service that creates custom stations based on your favorite artists. Fast-forward to 2014, however, and most people are listening the same way: through streaming music services.