They had about 3 million in January 2011 and announced five million users by June, eventually hitting seven million by September. It’s now on track to put on a million new members in January. The app has been very successful with over five million official SoundCloud iphone/android apps downloaded and over 10,000 third party apps have been developed on SoundCloud’s open platform.
On reaching this milestone, SoundCloud introduced a new feature called Story Wheel, which allows users to record their own narrative and add slides of images to tell a personal story, which is old school yet quite a cool feature.