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Nearly a decade ago, Billie Eilish, then 13 years old, put “Ocean Eyes” on SoundCloud and catapulted to global super stardom. It was the kind of ascent aspiring singers dream of, propelled by a platform that at the time wasn’t known for unearthing pop stars. But if you ask her…

A stunning pan-genre feast of pop electronics... 23 · 03 · 2026 April Harper Grey took to music as naturally as breathing. A formidable production voice, her first SoundCloud uploads came as a teen in the Bay Area – small, vibrant missiles of digi-soaked pop bedlam. Since then, she’s developed her…

From anonymous SoundCloud uploads to global stages, Paul Klein and Jake Goss are still chasing connection over perception with their newest drop, ‘Soft 2’ Photo by Shahzad Bhiwandiwala for Rolling Stone India Somewhere in the gentle tailspin of drum kicks and guitar strums that set off LANY’s track “When Did…

Spanning consumption patterns and emergent scenes, Soundcloud’s Music Intelligence Report 2026 maps out where music is heading next SoundCloud’s Music Intelligence Report 2026, which was released this February, revealed the platform to be part listening ground, part subcultural hotspot.  Assessing the data of artists and listeners, the report serves as…

Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny will perform at the United States' most-watched concert this weekend — the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show — fresh off Grammy Awards success for his latest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos. The album, described as a "love letter to Puerto Rico", became the first Spanish-language…

Brandon Banks is a man of the people; he moves with intent, down to the last syllable, the last strum. Since his debut in 2018, the Los Angeles native has finessed a folkloric strain of RnB with early SoundCloud experiments, and character-building EPs ‘ Tides ’ and ‘ Static ’. His latest…

Mirelo founders CJ Simon-Gabriel (left) and Florian Wenzel. Photo Credit: Mirelo Less than three years after setting sail, audio startup Mirelo, which says it lets “anyone generate perfectly synchronized sound effects for videos,” has scored a $41 million raise. Berlin-based Mirelo reached out with word of its Andreessen Horowitz- and…

Music hosting and streaming service SoundCloud has admitted it suffered a cyberattack. “SoundCloud recently detected unauthorized activity in an ancillary service dashboard,” opens a Monday post from the company. “Upon making this discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols and promptly contained the activity. We also engaged leading third-party…

Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users' email addresses and profile information. The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who…

Imogen Heap speaking during Lisbon’s Web Summit in 2024. Photo Credit: Web Summit SoundCloud has inked a partnership agreement with Imogen Heap’s Auracles, which is joining the music platform’s Benefits Partner Program. The involved companies just recently confirmed their deal in a formal release, after SoundCloud head Eliah Seton and…