Streaming music site SoundCloud has been growing in popularity, due in part to its social media integration, and now claims 175 million monthly users. However, the service has been at odds with the music industry since it has not been paying royalties. SoundCloud recently reached an agreement with Warner Music and last week “announced that it had struck a deal covering some 20,000 independent record labels through Merlin, an organization that represents small companies in digital negotiations,” reports The New York Times. “The Merlin deal follows another SoundCloud arrangement announced last month with the National Music Publishers’ Association, which also covers a range of smaller companies.”