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Today we have a lot to celebrate
Spotify turns three years old today. Yes, we really did start the company on April Fool’s Day. It’s been an amazing ride since we first set out to change the way people listen to music and while we’ve come a long way we still have a lot to do. In addition to Spotify’s third anniversary today is our co-founder Martin’s 40th birthday.
Since we began a lot has changed in the music industry; in particular over the past ten years there has been a radical shift in the way we consume music. The initial move from physical purchase of music to digital downloads changed forever the way we listen to music. Unfortunately, the easiest and most popular way to download music doesn’t compensate the rights holders. To change this, the music industry has started to move from an ownership model to a model where you have access to an unlimited catalogue of all the world’s music.
The move from ownership to access is what initially inspired Spotify to provide users with the ability to listen to whatever music they want, whenever they want to. People don’t want to act illegally, but they want to have everything at their fingertips instantly. By providing unlimited access we can create a product that is better than piracy.
Early on we realised that in order to achieve our dream we needed to be more than purely a program that played music on your computer. For that to happen we need to open up Spotify to a wider community, while at the same time respecting rights holders and generating enough money to provide users with the best possible service. We want Spotify to be the platform for people to consume, manage and discover music.
To reach our goal it’s important for Spotify to be wherever our users are. Music should be accessible on your favorite platform whether that’s a social network, an IM service, a mobile device or a media centre in your living room.
It’s also vital for us to be able to continue to provide a free service that is supported by advertising and has the same content as our paid service. To attract customers to Spotify Premium we want to provide access to more social features, bring users closer to the artists through pre-releases and live concerts and provide convenient access on a variety of different devices.
We plan to have more detailed information for you in the next few weeks, stay tuned.
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Congratulations! I joined a couple of hours ago. So far so good. Now a native Linux client and everyone will be happy. :-) Oh and the fact that there will be an Android client is great as well.
LONGING for Spotify for iPhone! :-) (Premium user since 5 months or so, loving it!)
Spotify really IS BETTER than piracy. Neither I nor many of my collegues have downloaded one single song illegaly since we got spotify accounts. Free user for 3 months then switched to premium.
Oh yeah! Spotify rules. Can't wait 'til I can get my band's stuff on here.
YAY! Love what yous guys are doing!
"For that to happen we need to open up Spotify to a wider community.... We want Spotify to be the platform for people to consume, manage and discover music." Maybe I'm reading between the lines too much, but sounds like an API is on the way!
Sounds like mobile app too.. By the way, there's a topic that may be intersting to adress one day on this blog. It is what does it mean when you say " music catalog update with xxxx releases". I mean how does it work technically when several labels feed a music service like yours with their contents I suppose they don't send you MP3 CDs nor do they have huge databases were you just connect your servers, so what does it look like… backstage ?
Congratulations. If you bring the price down to £5 a month I'll happily subscribe. I'm sure you would get a lot more premium users at that price too. £10 a month is a lot in this climate. Any plans on changing the price? Who else would subscribe if it was £5 a month?
£5 a month sounds good to me too.
I have faith that £5pm would increase subscribers enough to make the 50% reduction worth doing. I'd consider paying extra for more "premium features" tho be that playlist/user search, videos, whatever
I agree that £10 is too steep in these recessionary times. I really think that if you halved that amount, you'd easily more than double your subscriber base and come out a winner. In the meantime, I'm afraid I'm staying a free user.
I'm hoping Spotify Free will still exist when the Beta's over. With a big enough incentive to upgrade I could go for Premium but as of now the system is perfect.
Happy Birthday Spotify, gratulerer med dagen Martin! Spotify, is it the new way to play music? With the limitations NOT bringing your music with you OR paying to stream it on your phone and draining battery. Is it the future? Even with the limitations, I still love it......so do everyone else. Strange really, when similar "streaming" music services got a VERY bad rap not that long ago and several went bust.... ;) just goes to show, do the wrong thing right and people will love you for it. Do the right thing wrong....your f...ed Peace and love!
Congratulations on 3 years! I agree with the above comments that £5 would encourage more people to subscribe. I'm also interested in the technical process of uploading new music to the catalog. Would be fun to learn. Perhaps.
There's no way I'd stump up a tenner a month right now -- especially as it took a month to fix the OS X/Last.fm scrobbling bug (http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/status_unable_to_contact_server_error_309). As I said on that thread: if you want people to put their hands in their pockets, you've got to give them every incentive imaginable. Of course, a 50% cut to the subscription rate would be a hell of an incentive! Congratulations, though: on the whole, it's a pretty awesome service. For the moment I'm happy with the ads, but ask me again in a few months :)
congratulations on turning 3! as for paying 5£ versus paying 10£, either way i'm not going to pay since you're not offering anything really useful for that amount of money. can't wait to hear what features you plan on adding in order to get people to pay more. the music i really REALLY like, i end up pirating the lossless copy from a private tracker. i would gladly pay 20£ per month if you gave us lossless streaming or at least ultra high quality.
Happy B! thanks for the great job you are doing. Keep on updating the database and try to break down the regional restrictions which feels sooo 19th century.. Nowadays I never download music (illegally) if you have it available on spotify.. It so much less hassle throug spotify :-) Proud to be premium
I would love some sort of mobile app. But yeah keep on improving I love this service!
Yes £120 a year is too steep for me, but I'd definitely subscribe for £60.
Also why not include picture based ads somewhere? That way people aren't as annoyed but maybe it generates money as well. And I agree to the higher quality option.
You guys are so cheap! All this quibbling about a measly extra £5 a month! The current subscription rate works out at about 33p a day for all the music you can eat. I think all these recent posters have parachuted in from some lame I Love Being Cheap forum somewhere and half of them are probably Scottish. ;)
£10 a month is too much. Make it £5 a month and i'll happily subscribe, as will a lot more. Im sure subscription rates will more than double if it was £5 a month. And in response to the above, I'm not Scottish.
innocente, see our getsatisfaction forum, for example at http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/what_is_your_source_for_the_music, for some details on how we get content.
Congratulations!
why not make a Forum on spotify were ppl can share info about Spotify? i like to help in making spotify more secure :D Peace out Morno!
niiiiiiiice !!!
Congratulations! I deleted my whole local music-library when I started using Spotify. But running it threw Wine sucks (although Wine doesn't suck). Give us a native GNU/Linux client and everything would be perfect. Cheers, Daniel Holm, Sweden.
£10 per month is cheap for the service provided. However the quality is okay but if you were to output at a higher rate then I think people will be tempted to purchase the premium subscription. Are you likely to include the new cd by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives soon? Cheers from Wales
Gratulerer med dagen!
"To attract customers to Spotify Premium we want to provide access to more social features, bring users closer to the artists through pre-releases and live concerts and provide convenient access on a variety of different devices." Like commenting songs in a playlist? :D
Basic economics - half your prices and more users will subscribe.
Congratualtions and REMOVE THE -ALBUM VERSION SONG TITLES NOW!
Grattis! Nästa riktigt stora steg är väl kanske att göra Spotify portabelt :)
I love the service, but I have to tell you (regretfully) that the ads are not annoying enough to justify paying ten quid to get rid of them. If I was a Napster user, I could pay a tenner and get unlimited streaming PLUS downloads. So I don't see the incentive to upgrade to premium at the moment. Keep up the good work and happy birthday!
Please oh please start updating with japanese music soon! I had a lot of it before on Spotify, but now almost all of it is gone. It's probably record-companies setting the rules, but yo, record-companies, waky paky, Spotify is here to stay, and the world of music and movies is worldwide and region-free. Your products might be regioncoded but the consumers are worldwide.
Gratulerer!!! Feliz Cumpleaños!!
How to get more people's £10 a month 1) Fill out the artists a bit more (Which I'm certain you're working on) 2) Give better options for the control of the bandwidth - even better, give premium accounts the ability to turn it off altogether. Many of us have irritating fair use policies. 3) More communit based and varied means of getting tracks. Other than "what's new" and "top lists" there's not a lot of other ways to discover music - there's so much potential for expansion here. Friends, music suggestions, groups for those who like similar music. In the meantime, how about a bit more variety in the adverts? Naturally you'd like to have more advertisers, so I'm sure it's not for want of trying; but why not record a bigger variety of spotify adverts? Nice as Roberta's(?) voice is, I'm getting a bit bored of the same track again and again.
morno - We have a forum you can accces here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/
Whoever guessed an api is coming is correct. Can't tell you why I know this, but.. anyway :) Also, these things are sometimes delayed due to legal reasons, unfortunately. I dont think spotify technically has any big problem delivering an API.
Happy Birthday an keep on rocking! Spotify is really great and i would be even willing to pay more than £10 a month! Congratulations for the hard work you've done! I'm looking forward to the great new stuff you are planning!
Happy Birthday Spotify! You have an excellent service, I hope you'll be able to grow and get more and more labels to work with you. I have to say I don't really think a service like Spotify — as awesome as it may be — could ever replace, for me, buying the music and owning it (whether that is the physical CD/vinyl or digital lossless, not mp3 though). I mostly use it to discover albums without having to download them. I still download some albums because you don't have EVERYTHING yet :D but less and less thanks to Spotify. Still, Spotify kicks ass!
One thing I hope you can provide (not too far in the future) is a set of libraries or components that will make it possible to integrate spotify with music systems like squeezebox. Hopefully you can provide these libraries in linux as well so that those of us that run squeezebox server software are noe left out :) Subscription price is just fine for what is provided. Happy birthday.
lol the we dont want to pay £10 talk is bullshit...
Wow 3 years and now it really starts to spread faster than ever:) Love Music Love Spotify! Viktor @ http://www.bespotify.com
Happy anniversary! Spotify has made jaw drop all around since I first discovered your service, totally awesome. I still cannot understand how you managed to make the client so responsive.. I think time will show that the introduction of your service will be as big a milestone as the introduction of the MP3 format! Keep up the good work! Can wait for Spotify to get more social :)
Happy B-day Spotify!!! I would change to premium user if it was a cheap cuote for a long period of time (for example as flickr) and if it had a easier user interface for exchanging social playlists with contacts and recomendations. Also acces to all those new plataforms to have around house, work ,office and on the go. THNX and congrats again
I see people mention the bitrate quality. I think the quality is fine, but it would be cool if you could add an option in preferences or something for the music to be in a higher bitrate. Like: Low quality Medium quality High quality So people could choose their preferences if they buffer too much on a higher quality or something. Just an idea, but it might be too hard to do. >_> Anyway, congrats on 3 years and thanks for Spotify. ;D
Grattis... Slog just av min radio och startade spotify då det slog mig, jag är bered att lägga en slant på att köpa en fristående spotify radio... dvs en maskin med högtalare och förstärkare som jag kör spotify på och inget mer.... ansluter trådlöst till nätet här hemma med lite display + tangetbord för sökningar... enkel, ganska billig och allt i ett... /b
iPhone app FTW!!!!!!
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