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SoundCloud Hits 10 Million Users Mark
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 Written by Elliott Batte
SoundCloud Hits 10million Users Mark

SoundCloud, the music-sharing website that is a favourite among electronic producers and unsigned bands, has surpassed the 10million user-mark – and has released a new feature to celebrate.

The milestone is a massive feat for the site, who only managed to hit 5million years in July last year, and they’ve unveiled a new feature called ‘Story Wheel’, a slideshow-esque program which allows SoundCloud users to narrate their pictures with text.

“When Eric (Wahlforss) and I started SoundCloud,” co-founder Alexander Ljung said, “we had the vision of enabling people to create and share sound more easily and collaboratively. Today 10 million people are recognizing that vision and it makes us extremely proud and encouraged that people are supporting our mission to unmute the web.”

While it’s a massive milestone for that website, other sites like MegaUpload have been shut down by the US government for copyright infringement and file-sharing – which has now left some in fear that SoundCloud could be one of their next targets.

Matt Burns, a writer for technology website TechCrunch, wrote: “I love Soundcloud and enjoy exploring other people’s musical works. But there is copywritten material uploaded to the service as well. A single 50 Cent song is listed in the Justice Department’s complaint against MegaUpload.”
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