Music service Spotify that allows for a fixed monthly fee to listen to any song from its extensive library, released data about its audience. According to the head of the company Daniel Eka, the streaming service has reached 30 million paying subscribers.
The last time Spotify has reported on the number of paying users in July 2015, before the launch of its main competitor — the Apple music service Music. Then the company announced that it has reached the mark of 20 million paying subscribers, boosting the figure for the half year. The total number of users of the service then was $ 75 million users. Later that month, on 30 June 2015, Apple launched its own streaming service in more than 100 countries, including Russia.
Since that time, the audience of the musical Apple Music service has exceeded 11 million people. In February, stated that top managers of Apple eddy cue and Craig Federighi in the podcast John Gruber. It was noted that this indicator the company has managed to achieve in just six months. The main player in the market of streaming music services Spotify to achieve the same result, took six years.
Apple Music provides access to your media library iTunes with 30 million music tracks. Users of the service provided to the test period of three months, during which they can listen to music for free. After that, they must be switched off or pay a subscription fee of $ 169 per month.
Spotify, which has over 30 million paying subscribers and over 80 million free users, early has announced that it has paid more than $3 billion in royalties since launching in 2008.
