The endlessly-hyped music streaming service Spotify has only been live in the United States for less than four weeks, but is already boasting 1.4 million American users, according to AllThingsD. About 175,000 of those users are paying for the service, which is a conversion rate of 12.5%. There was no...
Users of the on-demand music streaming service Rdio now have a much prettier interface from which to browse and listen to songs on their iPads. The service's official iPad app finally launched earlier today. The new app gives Rdio a slight leg up over its newest and most buzzed-about competitor...
Universal Music Group launched a new website today called Digster.fm, where a team of music editors curates playlists that can be listened to through music service Spotify. Spotify is great, curation is a creative act with incredible potential, and I had some hope this new effort could point towards the...
Well, it's finally here. After two years of delay and a fresh $100 million round of funding, European music streaming service Spotify launched in the United States yesterday, much to the delight of music geeks, a handful of celebrities and pretty much everyone on Twitter. In addition to a whole...
Spotify has finally arrived in the U.S., the company announced this morning. But the full rollout is still underway. Interested customers are being asked to sign up for an invite on the company's homepage, if they haven't already done so.But regular (and fast!) ReadWriteWeb readers wanting to cut in line...
After two years of waiting, the U.S. market finally gets a chance to try out Spotify, the music-streaming service that's now wildly popular Europe. But why is there so much hype around Spotify, you may wonder? Don't we already have plenty of music streaming services here, like Pandora, Last.fm, Slacker...
Is the European music streaming service Spotify finally ready to come to the United States? When U.S. Web users visit Spotify.com they see the above image along with a field below the banner where a they can enter an email address to request an invite. Haven't we seen this before,...
European music streaming service Spotify has closed a $100 million round of funding in anticipation of a launch in North America. The round comes from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.American consumers who pay attention to the tech and music industries may have a bit of Spotify whiplash. It is coming....
Rumors have emerged that Facebook is partnering with streaming music company Spotify to integrate the service into the Facebook platform in Europe.According to Forbes, Spotify will have an icon to the left of the Facebook news feed with photos and events. Clicking on the icon will download the Spotify desktop...
The more features and improvements that European streaming music service Spotify makes, the more we here in North America cannot wait until it finally jumps across the pond. Today the company announced that its users will be able to integrate and download playlists onto assorted iPod, iPhone and Android devices...
Google is in talks with European-based streaming music service Spotify, according to a report today on CNET. Google has been rumored to be working on launching a streaming music service of its own for years now, with clamor over the potential service reaching a peak last summer when Big G...
European upstart music service Spotify just announced that it is putting new limits on its millions of free account holders. "[I]t's vital that we continue offering an on-demand free service to you and millions more like you," the company said in its announcement, "but to make that possible we have...
Last week, the word on the street was that everyone's favorite European music service, Spotify, was finally nearing a deal with major music labels in the U.S. and would soon enough be on its way across the pond. Today, Media Memo's Peter Kafka reports that the company "has finally signed...
Streaming music service Spotify has such an air of mystery in the U.S. that even a glimpse of the program's interface draws in readers. For the past year, we've discussed again and again when the company would make its way overseas and now the New York Post reports that the...
According to Spotify's CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek, MP3s are slowly becoming irrelevant as the world is shifting towards streaming music services. In an interview with the U.K.'s Telegraph, Ek argues that "Music needs to be like water. It needs to be ubiquitous. We need to understand that this is...
Streaming music service Spotify may not have made its way to the U.S. quite yet, but it has arrived in another much requested realm: Linux. A product of "hack days and late nights," the Linux version is something that the company says it hopes to make sure "keeps pace with...
Spotify, the red-hot European music service that's like iTunes, Pandora, MOG and more combined, released a new version last week that integrates with Facebook last week. I've been hearing about Spotify for months but hadn't actually seen it before - it's not available in the United States yet and no...
Spotify, our favorite streaming music browser to talk about that we can't even (legally) use in the U.S., has just announced that it is releasing version 0.4.3, "which includes the largest feature upgrade since our launch in 2008". Are we finally going to (legally) get Spotify here in the U.S.?...
While Spotify CEO Daniel Ek didn't say much about his company's timeline for launching in the U.S. during his SXSW keynote interview, it definitely looks like the popular streaming music services is putting all the pieces for a U.S. launch together. In an interview with Bloomberg earlier today, Spotify's senior...
Everybody piled into the ballroom today at the Austin Convention Center to hear Spotify CEO Daniel Ek give the final keynote interview of SXSWI of 2010 fully expecting to be blown away with the release of the peer-to-peer music player.Instead, we got somewhat evasive and allusive answers on when to...
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