After months of speculation and rumors, much-lauded European music service Spotify is available in the US!
Its free service, which limits listening somewhat, will roll out to users via invites in the next few weeks.
“We want to see how it goes,” says Ken Parks, chief content officer at Spotify. “It’s not unusual for services to do so. We want to test it, let users play with it.” reported Mashable. Parks would not confirm anything when it came to rumors that Spotify and Facebook are teaming up to launch a streaming music service.
“Spotify is simply a better experience,” Parks says when asked how Spotify feels going into a market already crowded with music subscription services. Spotify has 1 million paying subscribers across the UK, Finland, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Spain, so the 50 million number seems a little inflated. Upon launch, Spotify will be the only free, on-demand service available in the U. Recently, All Things Digital unearthed marketing documents that indicate that Spotify is extremely optimistic about projected membership numbers, aiming to garner 50 million US. Free is also pretty great value. Still, the service’s integration with Facebook will help drive awareness to its existence, as shared music begins to show up across users’ social streams.
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