I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for the weekend…

Early last week, a six-month promotion period, during which U.S. users were exempted from Spotify’s five-plays-per-song, 10-hours-per-month limits, was due to end for the first of the service’s American adopters, if reports were to be believed. But that apparently hasn’t yet happened.

Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

In October, Coldplay withheld its new album from streaming services like Spotify, Rdio , We7 and Mog. But that absence is not indefinite.

It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million subscribers for its music services in the U.S.

Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sales than the rest of the digital music industry put together, they are far from being out of the picture. Today saw 7digital, the UK-based download service…

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the music service through Virgin’s new TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.

Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest. But, as it prepares to announce a “new direction” on Wednesday, how has the music service fared so far?

Spotify’s paying customer base has grown by 25 percent (500,000) since Facebook started letting users spurt out their listening habits on September 21.

Spotify has invited press to an intriguing “global press conference” in New York next Wednesday, November 30, to answer the question “What’s next for Spotify?”

Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services flourish, converting listeners from ownership to access.

Major labels may be hoping that new-wave digital music jukeboxes can make up for slowing downloads growth. But a drip-drip of labels pulling out of the services in protest at low fees is continuing, and may grow to more than just indies.

Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands.

Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner reckons.

According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…

Manifesting digital content in physical form seems to work pretty well as a go-to-market retail strategy.

Music subscription services are about to face off on the global stage. Rdio, kickstarted by Skype’s founders, is embarking on the international expansion its CEO told paidContent about in February - just as Spotify plans expanding in to similar areas.