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05-13-2014, 05:42 PM
Report: Beats Music Had Only 111,000 Subscribers in March
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If Apple pays the $3.2 billion (http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/apple-beats-deal/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to acquire Beats Electronics, it could be paying about $29,000 per Beats customer, according to one report.
Beats Electronics, k**wn for its successful line of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, launched Beats Music (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/beats-music-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in January. Citing a leaked royalty report, the music blog The Trichordist (http://thetrichordist.com/2014/05/10/q-when-does-0-000126-3-2-billion-a-when-apple-buys-beats-music/) claims Beats Music had just 49,371 individual accounts and 61,621 "family" accounts in March, for a total of almost 111,000 subscribers. If the reported figures are correct, Beats has a long way to go to catch up to the leader in streaming music, Spotify, which has more than 25 million users worldwide, 6 million of which are paying for the service. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/beats-march-subscribers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Beats (http://mashable.com/category/beats/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Music (http://mashable.com/music/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Beats By Dr. Dre (http://mashable.com/category/beats-by-dr.-dre/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/2ERRUxR5ius
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If Apple pays the $3.2 billion (http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/apple-beats-deal/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to acquire Beats Electronics, it could be paying about $29,000 per Beats customer, according to one report.
Beats Electronics, k**wn for its successful line of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, launched Beats Music (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/beats-music-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in January. Citing a leaked royalty report, the music blog The Trichordist (http://thetrichordist.com/2014/05/10/q-when-does-0-000126-3-2-billion-a-when-apple-buys-beats-music/) claims Beats Music had just 49,371 individual accounts and 61,621 "family" accounts in March, for a total of almost 111,000 subscribers. If the reported figures are correct, Beats has a long way to go to catch up to the leader in streaming music, Spotify, which has more than 25 million users worldwide, 6 million of which are paying for the service. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/beats-march-subscribers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Beats (http://mashable.com/category/beats/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Music (http://mashable.com/music/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Beats By Dr. Dre (http://mashable.com/category/beats-by-dr.-dre/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/2ERRUxR5ius