{"id":792494,"date":"2019-01-29T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=785911"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:33:06","slug":"soundcloud-making-100-million-a-year-is-back-on-solid-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/soundcloud-making-100-million-a-year-is-back-on-solid-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud, Making $100 Million a Year, Is Back on Solid Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/soundcloud-is-back.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>SoundCloud, the Berlin-based streaming service whose launch of so many young rap careers spawned its own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/f-ck-it-well-take-the-bet-the-gold-rush-to-sign-the-next-rap-god-699707\/\">music genre,<\/a>\u00a0upped its global revenue from 2016 to 2017 by more than 80 percent, according to its latest financial reports. The company, however, has been troubled recently by\u00a0financial upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s 2017 accounts, recently filed to the UK Companies House and examined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/soundcloud-revenue-grew-80-to-top-100m-in-2017-as-losses-narrowed-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Music Business Worldwide<\/a>, show more than\u00a0\u20ac90.7 million ($102 million) in revenue that year, up from\u00a0\u20ac50.3 million ($57.8 million) the previous year. Subscription revenues grew 89 percent while advertising revenues crept up 53 percent; the company also managed to narrow its annual operating loss by 27 percent.\u00a0Such numbers suggest that SoundCloud has turned things around since the summer of 2017, when it closed multiple offices and had to let go of 173 employees, representing nearly half its workforce \u2014 leading to rumors that it might shutter altogether.<\/p>\n<p>But SoundCloud\u2019s receipt of $170 million in a funding round later that year, coupled with its installation of former Vimeo executive Kerry Trainor as CEO and an aggressive reorganization, seems to have helped establish a more stable position. Per the fiscal 2017 filing, SoundCloud has taken \u201csignificant steps to improve its financial health,\u201d including renegotiating certain rightsholder contracts, retiring outstanding debt and cutting major operating expenses, and it achieved positive operating cash flow in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>While its 2018 results will not be available until later this year, SoundCloud says it has surpassed its 2018 growth plan and remains focused on two major ideas: expanding its creator business with a suite of useful artist tools and offering a unique listening experience for its \u201cyoung, trendsetting, global music fans.\u201d The latter will be increasingly tough as Spotify, Apple Music and other big streaming services solidify their place as market leaders, but the former \u2014 a focus on music creation \u2014 is something in which SoundCloud remains unsurpassed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soundcloud-100-million-a-year-785911\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoundCloud, the Berlin-based streaming service whose launch of so many young rap careers spawned its own\u00a0music genre,\u00a0upped its global revenue from 2016 to 2017 by more than 80 percent, according to its latest financial reports. The company, however, has been troubled recently by\u00a0financial upheaval. The company\u2019s 2017 accounts, recently filed to the UK Companies House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:03:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}