Rhapsody Has 2.5 Million Paying Subscribers

We’ve been hearing a lot from Deezer, Tidal, Spotify, and Pandora recently. How’s ol’ Rhapsody doing?

Rhapsody and Napster, the other service the company owns, has announced that they have 2.5 million paying global subscribers. They say this is 60 percent more subscribers than last year.<!–/*
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They say their users listen to 5 million hours of music a week.

Rhapsody attributes their growth to partnerships. Last year they partnered with T-Mobile on the “unRadio” subscription service. The company also has partnerships with Telefonica, SFR, Vodafone, WIND, and Audi.

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