digital streaming marketshare in crowded US market :

Apple begins its newest s quest to shake up the music industry with the launch of its highly-anticipated streaming service Apple Music. The service will complement features similar to those of competing services such as Spotify and Tidal with elements of human curation and a 24/7 global radio station named Beats .According to a survey by Adison Research (before the launch of Tidal). Pandora has a marketshare of 45%.Pandora is the most used music streaming service in the US followed by iheartradio and itunes radio followed by spotify

FB and Spotify apps drain your android battery fastest

 FACEBOOK AND SPOTIFY ARE THE BIGGEST BATTERY DRAINERS

Facebook and Spotify users look out if your using an  android phone. If you have both these apps installed in  your android smartphone  and seem to frequently run out of battery , here is whom you can blame. In a recent report on the list of apps causing the highest battery drainage. these 2 stalwarts sit right on the top.  

 A recent report from AVG concludes that The popular music streaming app Spotify  ranks second  and  Facebook number 1 when it come to  battery consumption  and drains out your Android faster than any other app.

Facebook's constant background notification checks still have the greatest impact on overall Android device performance thereby causing severe battery draining. This comes from the AVG  quarterly Android App Performance report .The report analyzes aggregated, anonymous data from more than 1 million AVG Android app users to discover the top performance-affecting apps worldwide.

However  Venturebeat's Mark Sullivan  today  just announced that the latest Android  OS M version will  fare better  in terms of controlling their power by putting them off to sleep"

"You’ll be glad when Android M arrives on your device later this year; Google just announced that its new Android M mobile OS will put apps to sleep when you’re not actively using them. "

monthly usage of spotify's facebook app usage : 2011 to 2015

This  chart from statista shows the monthly and daily users of Spotify's Facebook app usage  since  September 2011 to 2015. 

 As of March 2015 spotify  had 37.61 million monthly active users and 11.18 million daily active users on  Facebook's platform ( for the month of march). This is in comparison to an average of around 20million monthly  users  who frequent the  music streaming apps at facebook. Spotify has been present at Facebook since  September 2011 and in its first month had seen  more than 3 million users.