{"id":10861,"date":"2016-07-23T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=10861"},"modified":"2016-07-22T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:27:01","slug":"spotify-remains-exclusive-to-playstation-sorry-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/spotify-remains-exclusive-to-playstation-sorry-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify remains exclusive to PlayStation, sorry Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>With a giant summer update some thought that Xbox consoles might finally get Spotify, but their exclusive deal with PlayStation is alive and well&#8230; for now.<\/h4>\n<p>The upcoming update for Xbox promises some cool new features like Cortana support and the long awaited ability to play music in the background. Unfortunately when you&#8217;re listening to music whilst exploring your game worlds on Xbox it won&#8217;t be played through\u00a0Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify have had an exclusive contract with Sony that has brought their popular music streaming to Playstation game consoles. In response to a tweet asking whether we could see Spotify coming to Microsoft&#8217;s xbox consoles soon, Spotify said: &#8220;Right now we&#8217;re focused on our exclusive partnership with PlayStation, we don&#8217;t have any info regarding other consoles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi! Right now we&#39;re focused on our exclusive partnership with PlayStation, we don&#39;t have any info regarding other consoles\/BE<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SpotifyCares (@SpotifyCares) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpotifyCares\/status\/754804771886891009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean we won&#8217;t see Spotify come to Xbox sometime in the future, Spotify even suggested\u00a0that we could expect some news soon in a follow up tweet. When user Daniel Duke said that he wouldn&#8217;t purchase their family plan because Spotify isn&#8217;t on Xbox, they responded: &#8220;We want to be available on as many platforms as possible. We don&#8217;t have any more info to share right now, but stay tuned&#8221;. Oh Spotify you tease.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey! We want to be available on as many platforms as possible. We don\u2019t have any more info to share right now, but stay tuned \/NZ<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SpotifyCares (@SpotifyCares) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpotifyCares\/status\/755651497011081217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For now we will have to make do with the existing music services on Xbox, which is currently only Microsoft&#8217;s own streaming service Groove. They haven&#8217;t revealed whether any new services will be introduced to the platform when they launch background music compatibility with Xbox but we&#8217;re\u00a0hoping that we get to see some new additions.<\/p>\n<p>Although music streaming is primarily popular on mobile devices and computers their appeal is clear on consoles as Spotify&#8217;s PlayStation app has been home to over 5 million streams. 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