Spotify has just opened up down under. Spotify is now live in Australia and New Zealand with over 16 million tracks.
This move shows that Spotify is planning on aggressively expanding globally in 2012.
Unlike it’s initial offering in the U.S. which featured only six months of free unlimited access, users in Australia and New Zealand will have full access to Spotify indefinitely. However, free accounts will be limited to 10 free hours of streaming each month.
Premium packages range from $4.99 to $9.99 a month.
Deezer is now available in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Deezer is a music streaming service that is expanding rapidly and is aiming for 200 countries by the end of 2012. At the moment Deezer has 20 million users, 1.5M paid subscribers, 15m tracks, 600K Facebook fans and 300K followers on Twitter.
“We are thrilled to launch Deezer in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and to play a key role in the music revolution,” said CEO Axel Dauchez. “This is a very exciting key turning point for Deezer following four years of extraordinary success inspired by passion for music”.
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Harmonix has confirmed that its Beatles-themed music game will be released on 9 September this year, and will be called The Beatles: Rock Band. An official site has gone live today inviting gamers to sign up for alerts when pre-ordering begins.
It’s a big deal – the game will launch simultaneously in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, and will be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
The game will include support for guitar, bass, mic and drums, but will also offer “a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career”.
