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Spotify Accepting Signups for US Launch

Signed up and downloaded Spotify a couple of weeks ago (I live in the United States).

I enjoy it so far. I only really use it when I'm sitting at work and want to listen to some music. Best part is being able to look at my friends playlists with the integration of Facebook built into the program.

Will be interesting to see everyone elses reactions when it's released widespread to the US. Sadly no one I know has it yet besides the people I work with and everyone I tell about it has no idea what it is.
 
MadIvan said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11821021

"According to the company's 2009 annual report it had advertising revenues of £4.5m and made £6.8m from subscriptions."

This is Spotify's most recent annual report. Simple deduction, even if you don't subtract the cost of development and running the company that doesn't leave much revenue to distribute among the artists and labels for 12 million songs. Less than 1 pound per song in the catalog. They have additional funds from investment, some of which may be going into payouts to the labels, but that is not sustainable.
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I can't find anything in that article that says that "artists getting esentially nothing for their work".

12 million songs? You do know how Spotify works? Artists get paid each time someone listens to one of their songs, they don't get paid for their songs being available in Spotify.
 
AaronEdwards said:
I can't find anything in that article that says that "artists getting esentially nothing for their work".

12 million songs? You do know how Spotify works? Artists get paid each time someone listens to one of their songs, they don't get paid for their songs being available in Spotify.
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^^This is what I was told when I talked with the Spotify executives. You're right
 
I have as much concern about musicians, their royalties and payments as they have about my wages, if I want to listen to some music, I couldn't care less about what they do or don't get paid for it.

Too many holier than thou people in this thread IMHO.

I subscribe and enjoy spotify, mainly listening through a sonos multi room system, not bothered where that money goes as I class it as good value.
 
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I've used Spotify Free through a proxy before. That didn't last long.

A couple things I like about Spotify vs the others.

It has a desktop application. Which means, I can play/pause the music from my keyboard.
It has 320kbps. Mog has this as well.
 
MadIvan said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11821021

"According to the company's 2009 annual report it had advertising revenues of £4.5m and made £6.8m from subscriptions."

This is Spotify's most recent annual report. Simple deduction, even if you don't subtract the cost of development and running the company that doesn't leave much revenue to distribute among the artists and labels for 12 million songs. Less than 1 pound per song in the catalog. They have additional funds from investment, some of which may be going into payouts to the labels, but that is not sustainable.
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That's a fairly old report. Spotify has grown explosively since then. Here's a more recent source: http://www.spotify.com/int/blog/archives/2011/03/08/spotify-reaches-one-million-subscribers/

If we assume they still have 1 million customers and we assume that they all pay the least amount possible (which is very unlikely) that comes in at 5 million pounds - a month.

That's excluding ads revenue of course. The actual number probably excedes £10m a month.
 
daveathall said:
I have as much concern about musicians, their royalties and payments as they have about my wages, if I want to listen to some music I couldn't care less about what they get, or don't get paid for it.

Too many holier than thou people in this thread IMHO.
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^ couldn't have said it better. A lot of industries have been struggling over the past decade.
 
macsmurf said:
That's a fairly old report. Spotify has grown explosively since then. Here's a more recent source: http://www.spotify.com/int/blog/archives/2011/03/08/spotify-reaches-one-million-subscribers/

If we assume they still have 1 million customers and we assume that they all pay the least amount possible (which is very unlikely) that comes in at 5 million pounds - a month.

That's excluding ads revenue of course. The actual number probably excedes £10m a month.
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They actually reached 1.5 million paying customers a few weeks back, so it's growing really fast.
 
Travelling

ratzzo said:
Also, when I travel abroad (ie US) my account does not work claiming US is not available for Spotify use... so I wonder if I can keep using it with my current account outside Europe and not have to make another one for US use.
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My premium account worked perfectly when travelling in US in Feb & March this year, both on laptop and iPhone with US sim card.
 
ExB said:
My premium account worked perfectly when travelling in US in Feb & March this year, both on laptop and iPhone with US sim card.
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Premium and Unlimited Spotify accounts feature unlimited international use. Spotify Open and Spotify Free will only work for 14 days internationally, at which point they can't be used abroad again (unless the user pays to upgrade).
 
TurnerMan said:
Woohoo...yet another music service that offers limited free-play and high subscription prices. I'm sooo excited. :rolleyes:
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Woohoo, another person that doesn't produce anything, yet thinks that people who DO produce stuff shouldn't be paid for it. I'm sooo excited. :rolleyes:
 
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