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Spotify Now Has 83M Paid Subscribers and 180M Total Monthly Users
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So, can I ask? Does Siri get's it right when you ask her to play an artist on Spotify?
If you are comparing 2 similar services, what does Siri have to do with it? She is just VA
I have both at the moment. Been using Spotify for years and just recently started using Apple music. Honestly, can't find any singe difference on both so I may just cancel Spotify at the end of this month and keep Apple music. The way I listen to music is, discover and add songs I like on a playlists. And then when I feel like I want to play a certain playlist, I just do. I never ask Siri to play anything.
I moved to AM just about 3 months ago and the way I use it, I don’t feel a difference either, except it works better with iPhone integration.
Certain situations when hands are tied like in a gym, car, or running, being able to call on Siri to que up any song that comes to mind is nice.
SongShift makes it easy to switch saved playlist from Spotify to Apple Music and vice versa. It’ll be easy peasy to go back and forth when needed, if I go back to droid I’ll go back to Spotify.
Actually no one has better algorithms, it all depends on your taste and size of the library. It is entirely possible that Spotify simply has more music that you like that is simple unavailable on AM.
I was not aware of SongShift. I will definitely have a look at is as I have a large playlists on Spotify. Thanks for that.
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In its Q2 2018 earnings report shared today -- the second since filing for an IPO -- Spotify revealed that it has grown to 83 million paid subscribers globally and 180 million total monthly active users (including the free tier) as of the end of June 2018 (via TechCrunch). This is an increase from 75 million paid subscribers and 170 million total users that Spotify had in Q1 2018.
Spotify is in a heated battle for new subscribers with Apple Music, which has been growing fast over the last few quarters. While Spotify still has more than double Apple Music's global paid subscriber count (Apple Music was last counted to have about 40 million), recent reports have suggested Apple's streaming service could be beating Spotify in terms of paid subscribers in the United States.
Spotify didn't specify U.S. paid subscriber numbers, but it says that 31 percent of its total 180 million monthly active users are located in North America. This places around 56 million paid and free tier Spotify users across regions including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Spotify attributes its subscriber growth to strong performance and lower churn rate of its Family Plan, as well as partnerships like the Spotify + Hulu bundle.
While the company grew its revenue 26 percent year-over-year to EUR1.27 billion, it still isn't making a profit and saw an operating loss of EUR91 million and net loss of EUR394 million this quarter. It's believed that the company's spending on marketing campaigns to stay ahead of Apple Music and the high royalty payments to record labels and artists continue to be a barrier to profitability for Spotify.
The company also pointed towards the new GDPR rules set in Europe this past May as a "disruptor" across its European markets during Q2. The rules were said to have slowed down subscriber growth where 37 percent of its total user base resides (its biggest region), but Spotify says it "seems to be largely past that now."
Looking into Q3 2018, Spotify expects paid subscribers to rise to 85-88 million and total users to rise to 188-193 million.
Article Link: Spotify Now Has 83M Paid Subscribers and 180M Total Monthly Users
I switch from Spotify to Google Music just because it included YouTube Red which I love. I can't stand having to watch advertisements when using YouTube.
In its Q2 2018 earnings report shared today -- the second since filing for an IPO -- Spotify revealed that it has grown to 83 million paid subscribers globally and 180 million total monthly active users (including the free tier) as of the end of June 2018 (via TechCrunch). This is an increase from 75 million paid subscribers and 170 million total users that Spotify had in Q1 2018.
Spotify is in a heated battle for new subscribers with Apple Music, which has been growing fast over the last few quarters. While Spotify still has more than double Apple Music's global paid subscriber count (Apple Music was last counted to have about 40 million), recent reports have suggested Apple's streaming service could be beating Spotify in terms of paid subscribers in the United States.
Spotify didn't specify U.S. paid subscriber numbers, but it says that 31 percent of its total 180 million monthly active users are located in North America. This places around 56 million paid and free tier Spotify users across regions including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Spotify attributes its subscriber growth to strong performance and lower churn rate of its Family Plan, as well as partnerships like the Spotify + Hulu bundle.
While the company grew its revenue 26 percent year-over-year to EUR1.27 billion, it still isn't making a profit and saw an operating loss of EUR91 million and net loss of EUR394 million this quarter. It's believed that the company's spending on marketing campaigns to stay ahead of Apple Music and the high royalty payments to record labels and artists continue to be a barrier to profitability for Spotify.
The company also pointed towards the new GDPR rules set in Europe this past May as a "disruptor" across its European markets during Q2. The rules were said to have slowed down subscriber growth where 37 percent of its total user base resides (its biggest region), but Spotify says it "seems to be largely past that now."
Looking into Q3 2018, Spotify expects paid subscribers to rise to 85-88 million and total users to rise to 188-193 million.
Article Link: Spotify Now Has 83M Paid Subscribers and 180M Total Monthly Users
I tried it for a number of weeks, but won’t be completing the full 3 month trial. AM took the ‘liberty’ to change the covers of my albums to a AM equivalent, exiting from AM leaves my music library in a total mess. I won’t be back.
You could argue everything is subjective, but to me and many others, Spotify clearly has a better algorithm. Everything I’ve read online seems to be in agreement. I’ve never heard anyone try to claim Apple’s algorithm is better for music discovery.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-weekly-online-music-curation-interview
And yet somehow for me AM has better suggestions even though i've been using Spotify for much longer than AM. This is not rocket science and everything comes down to your taste and a literal number of tracks available.
If one of the services physically is missing artists or tracks that you like the suggestions will be not as good. That's all.
I did the same thing for same reason about a year ago. My Google music library is almost three times the size of my iTunes one. Duplicates and some triplicates with no easy way to fix it. Of course I could delete and upload 60GB again. GM uploader is a network resource hog so no thanks. YouTube music is awful sounding on anything nicer than headphones. I started listening to Spotify the quality and works on everything natively in my world, goodbye GM/YT. Tried AM for a year same issues and closed system. I want to support companies that don’t treat me like a captured cash cow anymore.
Correct, and when it's a band for whom it will make a difference (the Darrow Chemical Company's of the world) versus someone who can print money (like a Metallica), I'm buying physical copies from them in person and putting gas in their vans and food in their mouths. Still, Apple pays better than spotify so every cent counts.
To further go down that route, it's the merch where a band makes it's money, not the CDs (unless they're independent).
Let us know if you do do it and what your experience was.
You’ll notice when you transfer the playlist it’ll say it was created by songshift however you can always copy that entire playlist once in Apple Music and create a new playlist easily if you want to show you created the list rather than songshift. If that even matters unless your OCD like me.
I like you can choose pictures for your playlist, makes it easy to look at your playlist when you recognize it by photo.
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I’ve used Spotify before. As a free trial. Didn’t keep it. Used google play music as a free trial didnt keep it. I never even bothered with the free trial for Apple Music. Got the hompod and decided to activate my free trial of Apple Music. I liked the way it worked with the HomePod so I carried on paying for it when the trial ended. I’ve since donated my entire CD collection to charity. I have it all ripped and saved on my computer and I had a stereo system but I haven’t used it for about 8-9 years So I didnt see the point in keeping it or the physical CDs which were just taking up space and my toddler was always climbing up on the shelf and trying to pull them down.
So now I’m all in with Apple Music.
I have amazon music through my prime subscription but I’ve never used it before. I recently subscribed to YouTube premium and that was for the offline and background YouTube playback. I got google play music as part of the subscription. Apple Music seems to be better for me. I asked the HomePod to play me some music and it actually played stuff that I liked and was in the genre I like. I asked my google home the same thing and what it played was something very random nothing I’d ever listen to. I’ve had my own music library uploaded to google play music for about 5 years ago so I thought it would have known me better.
So now I’m all in with Apple Music.
I have amazon music through my prime subscription but I’ve never used it before. I recently subscribed to YouTube premium and that was for the offline and background YouTube playback. I got google play music as part of the subscription. Apple Music seems to be better for me. I asked the HomePod to play me some music and it actually played stuff that I liked and was in the genre I like. I asked my google home the same thing and what it played was something very random nothing I’d ever listen to. I’ve had my own music library uploaded to google play music for about 5 years ago so I thought it would have known me better.
If you gave the CDs you ripped away for someone else to use, I believe you have to delete the rips you made ;-)
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I personally use Spotify. As a prog rock fan, the suggestions it makes are scarily accurate especially for late 60s early 70s and also current neo prog bands.
Both great music services. Apple has a few million more titles, but most people won't notice. Biggest problem with Spotify is how poorly they pay the artists and using music without paying artists. (They pay less than half of what Apple gives the musicians) Problem for Spotify is that they are hemorrhaging ever greater amounts of money and the future looks more difficult as both lawsuits and legislation will mean even greater costs for them with no way to increase prices to cover costs.
Yes, people have different things they like about each service, but in the end, music streaming is close to being a "commoditized" business where the vast majority of consumers will choose based on price. That's terrible for Spotify as they can't lower prices, but are competing against companies like Google, Apple and Amazon, who all have multiple giant revenue streams other than music streaming.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...uit-tom-petty-weezer-neil-young-songs-1070960
Yes, people have different things they like about each service, but in the end, music streaming is close to being a "commoditized" business where the vast majority of consumers will choose based on price. That's terrible for Spotify as they can't lower prices, but are competing against companies like Google, Apple and Amazon, who all have multiple giant revenue streams other than music streaming.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...uit-tom-petty-weezer-neil-young-songs-1070960