Discussion: Who here has Spotify?

Dust2

How has it affected your music habits?

Here's mine:

Since Spotify, I stopped listening to Pandora Radio, a lot less Itunes and Amazon MP3. Music Video on Youtube/VEVO is unchanged.

Mzd

I actually LOVE it I use it on facebook the most where I just type the song I want to listen and click play. I really love it

Dust2

Around 85% of Spotify users are FREE USERS.
Around 15% are PAID SUBSCRIBERS.

January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers
March 17, 2010:----------- 320,000
July 20, 2010: ---------------- 500,000
December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000
March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000
July 14, 2011: -----------------1,600,000
Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000
October 14, 2011-------------I would guess around 2,150,000 paid subscribers or around there

Dust2

For those that use the integration of Facebook and Spotify, how many of your friends now has Spotify on their Facebook?

25%?
33%?
50%?
75%?

http://www.pbpulse.com/music/music-f...tep-for-music/
Is Spotify the next evolutionary step for music?

Quote:

If Spotify catches on, and considering the growing number of Facebook friends I see popping up on Spotify every day there’s no doubt that it will, you have to wonder if iTunes will be forced to follow suit and allow users to stream music for free.

Spotify in 2010 paid $102 million USD in music royalties. See its "cost of sales" in UK currency.
I am going to predict that Spotify will pay about $200 million USD in music royalties this year. For 2012, maybe $300-350 USD. Every half penny add up.