Funny!
The new album by Moss (Ornaments) is on Spotify as the new album by Ornaments (Moss)
Via Financial Times
No wonder the record labels are sounding much more positive about music subscription services. Spotify is starting to reap the benefits of its oft-doubted “freemium” business model.
After hitting 2.5m subscribers in November, the Anglo-Swedish digital music service has now reached 3m, with more than 20 per cent of its active user base paying every month to banish advertisements or listen on smartphones.
That ratio is up from 15 per cent in March last year, when Spotify crossed 1m subscribers. The latest figures mean it’s added another million since September’s 2m milestone, suggesting its growth rate is accelereating.
“We have achieved some pretty great results in terms of the ratio of paid users,” Ken Parks, Spotify’s chief content officer and US managing director, told the FT. “We have an enormous internal effort to drive conversion and engagement with the service. We are very focused on growing in our existing 12 markets as well as expanding in other markets.”
Ensuring that enough free users start subscribing is crucial to making the economics of Spotify’s business work, due to the costs of paying out royalties to labels and publishers every time a song is played, regardless of whether the user is paying.
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“This is a healthy model. As it scales it gets better for everybody,” said Mr Parks, adding that half of Spotify’s paying customers are under 30. “That is a remarkable number of people who are generally hard to monetise.”
Earlier this week, record label executives said that subscription services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rhapsody were finally helping to offset declining CD sales and put the music industry back onto a growth footing by next year.
Via Spotify
We are delighted to see great applications created by other developers using the Spotify Platform. We’re really impressed by one that’s been released this week, SpotON Radio , a third-party radio application for iOS devices.
SpotON Radio allows you to create personalized radio stations on your iOS device. These stations mix your Spotify favourite tracks with similar songs. Just download the application to your iOS device, login with your Spotify or Facebook credentials and start discovering new music!
These are some other features that SpotON Radio offers:
- Create personalized radio stations based on any artist
- Like and dislike songs to fine tune your stations entirely to your own taste
- Add new tracks or export the entire stations’ history directly into your Spotify playlists
- You can skip as many songs as you like
It’s a great way to find new music similar to your own taste! And it is all powered by Spotify’s huge music catalogue and EchoNest’s song recommendation engine.
Spotify Premium subscribers can enjoy SpotON Radio right now. Head over to the App Store to get it.
(post in Dutch)
Via Bright
Muziekblad Oor heeft een iPhone-app met Spotify-integratie uitgebracht. Bij elk te lezen artikel is een liedje te luisteren.
Oor heeft maandagochtend zijn eerste iPhone-app uitgebracht. De gratis app laat gebruikers artikelen van de afgelopen dagen lezen. Bijzonder is dat de app als een van de eerste een volledige integratie van streamingdienst Spotify heeft. Bij elk artikel kan je een Spotify-liedje in de app afspelen. De muziek blijft ook doorgaan als je naar een andere app gaat. Gebruikers moeten wel inloggen met hun Spotify-wachtwoord om te kunnen luisteren binnen de Oor-app.
De app biedt verder popnieuws, recensies van albums en concerten en andere info op muziekgebied. Het archief gaat niet verder dan enkele dagen. ‘Dat zou nog kunnen komen in een eventuele latere betaalde update’, laat Oor-hoofdredacteur Koen Poolman weten.
Een iPad-app is er nog niet, maar Oor is wel tegen betaling op de tablet te lezen via de MagWorld-app van AKO. Oors iPad-app verschijnt in maart of april.
Some bands make other choices … but Arcade Fire is on Spotify right now!
Via Spotify
Today we’re excited to announce that one of our favorite bands, Arcade Fire, is now on Spotify. The entire catalogue from these Grammy-award winning Indie rockers is available to enjoy right here.
To celebrate, we’ve compiled our top Arcade Fire tracks. Take a listen here and be sure to add these talented Canadians to your playlists today!
Via Spotify
Get ready for an amazing radio experience. Unlimited stations, unlimited skips – that’s the new Spotify Radio.
You can be the DJ and skip between stations and tracks, or choose a station and just go with the flow. If you like what you hear, you can save the song to a playlist or play it again on demand.
To get started
Starting a radio station is easy. Click “Start Artist Radio” at the top of any artist page or just drag a track to “Radio” in the left sidebar. Spotify will make a radio station of similar music.
Then sit back. Or dance about. Your station will keep playing music based on your initial choice, it’s endless. And there’s no limit to the number of stations you can create.
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.
We’ll be starting to roll out this brand new radio along with Spotify Apps in the next few days. Can’t wait? Then we have a preview version available for you here.
Today Immunis Development announced on Twitter to start the beta-testing of their Spotify iPad app. We look forward to it!
In the mean-time, Spotify itself states that “the long awaited native iPad app isn’t too far away”. Read the article on Pocket-lint here.
So, who will be first and what will be the best one …
One of the great new Spotify apps is TuneWiki. This app shows the lyrics of the songs you play in Spotify!
Check the beta-version of Spotify with apps here, to try TuneWiki!
Now there’s even more to discover thanks to free Spotify Apps. In a nutshell, apps bring you new and exciting music experiences built around your music tastes. Intrigued? Then say hello to Spotify Apps!
Spotify Apps are a bunch of exciting and integrated apps inside Spotify, created by some of the best and brightest brands in the world. Each glorious app brings you new music experiences built around your music tastes. Enjoy the ride!
Check the preview-version here.
Useful links about Spotify Platform
http://www.spotify.com/nl/download/previews/ DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW VERSION
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/30/spotify-apps-hands-on/
http://pansentient.com/2011/11/introducing-the-spotify-platform/
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/11/30/spotify-wil-rijkere-muziekervaring-bieden-komt-met-eigen-apps/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8925213/Spotify-to-launch-app-store.html
