Music News: Spotify is now 9 times bigger than iTunes in Sweden - Page 3

MrDeeds

Dust2, can you hire me for the LatinAmerica area? Pm me.

NaughtyDog

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Originally posted by iLays

Other than tha fact that 21 isn't on there,Spotify is flawless. I don't know tha last time i used iTunes other than to put songs on my iPod,but to purchase...

21 is there, I was surprised when I saw it too since it was missing for a long time

MikeFenty

I'm still waiting for Spotify to arrive in Canada

GaGaFan

I didn't realize there were so many Apple haters here...

Haters gonna hate.

Big Smoke

[QUOTE=Archetype;10659224]Wrong. Apple doesn't do any pre-converting or downloading. Almost every flash video site on the Internet has an HTML5 video counterpart that plays on all iOS devices, which is much faster than flash videos loading on any new Android phone. Google's very own YouTube app on Android doesn't even use flash, it uses HTML5.

Second of all, Flash support on all mobile phones will die this year because Adobe is dismantling their Mobile Flash division and taking it off the Android market. Adobe has finally acknowledged that HTML5 is superior to and more efficient than flash on mobile phones.
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True, fact is HTML5 is going to take over and flash is on its way out. but HTML5 is used in the production environment? already? That still has kinks to work out.

Dust2

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Originally posted by Archetype

Back on topic, I love Spotify's streaming service. However, you can only store a certain amount of downloads a month, which isn't "owning" music, it's renting it. .

You can stream any song you want (except for a few holdouts like The Beatles) if you have internet connection/3G/4G.

If you don't want to use your "data" you can download up to 3,333 songs and stream offline. That way, you don't have to use any "data" on your wireless phone.

If you have hit the 3,333 songs barrier for offline streaming. Get rid of some songs and you can add more.

Dust2

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Originally posted by Ramcoro

Ok people pay to stream, does Spotify distribute money back to artists according to the how much it is listened?

Yes. I would say around $0.006 per stream.
100 streams = $0.60

http://spotifyroyalties.blogspot.com/

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$0.00450 per stream ($3,376 for 750,000 total streams)
$0.00579 per stream ($0.65412 for 113 total streams - August/Sept 2011)
$0.00870 per stream ($0.3219 for 37 total streams - Sept 2011)
$0.00726 per stream ($2.5549 for 352 total streams - July 2011)
$0.00535 per stream ($4,277.39 for 798,783 total streams - July to Dec 2011)

As a whole, Spotify pays about 70% of revenue as royalties.

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/...esidence-.html

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Anyone who doesn't think we're paying a fair cut hasn't seen the numbers we pay out. By far the vast majority of the money we're making goes back to the owners of the music – about 70%.

If Spotify revenue is $1 billion, they will pay out 70% or $700 million to the owners of the music. The other 30% or $300 million is for Spotify to run its business (servers, engineers, overhead, office, personnel, ad sales staff etc.....).

It's easy to see why SCALE is crucial.