Premium now available at ICA and Rimi in Norway

When we are talking about premium, what is keeping you from releasing premium to other countries? Even the largest country in Europe is still left out in the cold! (Germany) I do not see why you cannot "silently" release Spotify Premium in other countries, even if you wait with the "official release". If the record companies are that difficult to deal with that they wont even allow premium accounts in other countries, then they can go f... themselves :P I think it is great to see how good your product is and how much it is developing, but you need to get yourself into more territories. Everyone and his dog around the world have already heard about Spotify, but if it never gets released in the rest of the world, people will get tired of it/pissed off even before you get a chance to show them your great offering. Kind of what Netflix is doing to Europeans... I WANT NETFLIX YESTERYEAR!! I'm Norwegian myself by the way.

@andres - Sorry if it came across in my post that I am trying to put Spotify down or apportion blame, I'm not, it's just that you're not doing yourselves any favours in terms of Public Relations. At the moment it seems like Spotify is just the on-line branch of the record labels, completely at their behest and following slavishly whatever they say. This is a dangerous position to be in since the majority of your users hate the record labels and their out of date business model. Perception is everything and Spotify needs to position itself more so that it looks like you are fighting for the rights of your users to legally listen to whatever they want wherever they want, even if this means making the occasional dig at the record labels. Apple have been the masters at bending perception, they give the impression that they completely control iTunes and that it was them that fought on behalf of their users to make the record labels remove DRM and they fought against variable pricing etc. The truth is probably quite different but like I said perception is everything and Apple make their users feel that they are fighting on their behalf against "the man". Right now it feel like Spotify is under the complete control of "the man". All I am suggesting is that you need to communicate more with your users so they are on your side when the record labels do something stupid like removing content, otherwise you will get the blame the whole time and people will start to hate Spotify instead of hating the complex and unnecessary publishing system that the record industry has built up but is no longer relevant in a global environment like the internet.

mayhemgard: Inntil videre spør du bare i kassen, så scanner dem en strekkode i kassen sin. Da vil du få koden du trenger ut på kvitteringen. Dette er ingen optimal løsning, så vi jobber med å lage en løsning som er mer synlig for deg som kunde. Om du har kjøpt kontantkort i noen av våre butikker (ICA, MAXI eller Rimi), så fungerer dette på samme måten. // André Sunnevåg Olsen, ICA Norge AS.