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.
Spotify just released their most requested feature: The iPad app. I have been using it for the past few days and so far its very slick. What do you think? Was it worth the wait?
Spotify has just announced their launch in Germany!
Spotify Free – the unsurpassed free music service. Enjoy free, on-demand access to millions of songs on your computer. No gimmicks. Just listen and love it, month after month. Spotify Unlimited – all the special features of our free service, but with uninterrupted, ad-free access to Spotify on your computer. All for only 4.99EUR a month. Spotify Premium - the top-of-the-range Spotify experience. Premium gives you access to all the music, all the time. Listen online, offline, on your computer, your mobile phone and a whole heap of other devices. Enjoy enhanced sound quality and access to exclusive content, competitions and special offers. Premium costs just 9.99EUR. A special occasion deserves a special playlist. Here’s a playlist of tracks we put together just for you.
Simply visit http://spoti.fi/h0l-dir to sign up, or click on any of the ‘play’ links you see in Facebook to get started for free. Happy listening!
Rhapsody has announced their music streaming service is now available in Germany and the UK via their Napster deal. A few months ago it was announced that Rhapsody acquired Napster, but that was for the US assets, thus they needed to signed a deal with the remaining Napster service in Europe.
Spotify is yet to launch in Germany to compete with Napster and Simfy, but this is expected to change very soon!
NME has released their 50 best tracks of 2011 playlist via Spotify. It has been an amazing year in music and there are a huge amount of great tracks on this playlist.
Spotify has just launched their upgraded Spotify Radio service that takes a direct shot at Pandora. Spotify Radio offers unlimited stations and unlimited skips, so it is a mile ahead of the competition (potentially makes Pandora and We7 pointless).
Features:
A unique radio experience
Thanks to our all-new intelligent recommendation engine and multi-million track library, Spotify Radio is a music discovery experience without equal.
Unlimited skips
Don’t like a track? Skip it. You can skip as many times as you like. It’s your radio station.
The new Spotify Radio is being rolled out as we speak but you can also get the preview now! The preview version available for you here.
I have been noticing around the net that a lot of artists have been trying to find a quality solution to get their music added to Spotify for Free. RouteNote is the leading digital music distributor in the UK and we allow artists to add their music to the worlds largest music stores and streaming services for Fre (no upfront fees) and the artist keeps 85% of the royalties. Spotify is one of the services we have partnered with and they are providing some great promotion and revenues for artists.
If you want to get your music onto Spotify for free just check out RouteNote.
AIM (Association of Independent Music) has released their latest digital sales figures for indie labels and bands and it claims that 94.4% of all indie digital revenues is via iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Everything else is fighting over just 5.6% of the market.
Alison Wenham, head of the UK-based consortium, pointed to a lopsided logjam. ”There are now a series of monopolies and it is jolly hard for anyone else to get a slice of the market”.
In the US there is still no Spotify presence and it seems as though eMusic is the third largest player, but Im sure they will change when Spotify finally enter the US this year.
