It reached 5 million users in June 2011 and that soon doubled, displaying significant growth since its launch in 2008. Soundcloud has also clocked up more than 5 million downloads of its mobile app.

Marking its landmark community numbers, company founders Alex Ljung and and Eric Wahlforss sent out a thank you message on its new Story Wheel tool that allows users to create a slideshow from Instagram photos with added vocal narration.