Top Music Streaming Startups in 2026

Mixcloud is an audio streaming platform that supports creators to craft a deeper listening experience and build their own fan communities. It is home to a unique catalog of 50 million DJ mixes, radio shows and podcasts handcrafted by the world’s finest DJs, online radio stations and cultural tastemakers, available to be listened to for free across all devices. Mixcloud’s mission is to get more fans directly supporting creators and build a more sustainable future for audio culture. Founded in 2009, the London-based company operates a fair and legal streaming service that ensures artists, songwriters and rights-holders behind the music receive their fair royalties. It also offers a direct fan-to-creator channel subscription model that uniquely enables the long-form audio creator to take part in the online revenue mix. LOUD is Mixcloud’s cultural strategy and activation consultancy, working with global brands such as Dr. Martens, Marriott, Adidas, Red Bull, Shure and more to achieve culture/brand fit. Visit mixcloud.com and download the apps on iOS or Android. For brand partnerships, visit loud.mixcloud.com. We’re a culturally active bunch, with many of us pursuing our passions as DJs, radio hosts or creatives. Benefits include unlimited holiday, stock, flex working, free yoga, DJ lessons, & cater weekly lunches.

SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform. SoundCloud has nearly 300+ full-time staff currently, with over 30 different nationalities and 30 languages spoken at the company. Today, SoundCloud reaches more than 350 million people every month around the globe, across the web, mobile, our embeddable widget and our API. More than 175 million unique listeners monthly and our creators post 12 hours of new content on SoundCloud every minute.

We are a streaming service on major streaming platforms that shows positive images of people of color, provides opportunity and levels the playing field for people of color to have a voice.

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Midnyt record label is a brand/ trademark that is established with the major aim of marketing music recordings and music videos. Midnyt record label is also a publishing company that manages music brands and music trademarks as well as coordinates the music production process. Our manufacture, distribute, market, promote and enforce copyright for sound recordings and music videos. Midnyt Record label also conduct talent scouting and development of new and upcoming music artistes; and we maintain contracts with musicians as well as their managers.