Spotify Makes Facebook Mandatory, Angers Users

Want to use Spotify? You'll have to use Facebook, too. Spotify has just made it mandatory for users to sign into Facebook before logging on at Spotify. Spotify's founder, Daniel Ek, says that the new requirement is simply ... continue

Spotify Using Klout Scores To Send Out U.S. First Look Invitations

Users in the U.S. have begun to receive Spotify membership acceptance emails and it looks like the company is targeting users with high Klout scores. If you're unfamiliar with Klout the system provides "influence" scores based off a ... continue

[Video] Spotify First Look and Invites!

Spotify- the previously Europe-only music service that yanks have been trying to get into since it launched- has finally hit US shores to much fanfare yesterday. Reviews and feedback for the site are streaming in from users that ... continue

Spotify Arriving in the U.S. Tomorrow! Multiple Plans Available

Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks announced on Wednesday that the UK's favorite music streaming service will arrive in the U.S. on Thursday, July 14. When asked about the hurdles leading up to the U.S. launch he said: We ... continue

Spotify halves monthly free listening time

European music streaming service Spotify upset users and fans today with an announcement that the number of hours of listening for free users would be halved from 20 to 10. One of the first comments on Spotify's post ... continue

Spotify Milestone: One Million Subscribers Now Paying For Service

With our recent announcement that Spotify would soon be coming to the United States we're happy to announce that the streaming music service has reached one million paying subscribers. When compared against the company's 7 million overall ... continue

Spotify Looking For North American Release [Report]

In 2009 European music service Spotify lost $26.7 million, while 2010 numbers have not yet been revealed, it looks like the company may be poising themselves to try their luck in the U.S. as they attempt to ... continue

Spotify signs deal with Telia

The European based online music service Spotify has just signed a deal with Telia in Sweden. Telia is Sweden's largest ISP and mobile carrier with branches in the Nordic and Baltic countries and in Russia, Spain and ... continue

The farce of musicians actually getting paid

Name any trade group that claims to represent songwriters and/or musicians and they well all tell you how they are all about making sure that the musicians are getting their fair share of money ... continue

Piracy down, streaming up in the UK

Where are your lawsuits now, music industry? Piracy was down by roughly a third in the UK in 2008, but streaming was way up in the same period. Savvy UK teenagers are using sites like Pandora, YouTube, Grooveshark ... continue