Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Spotify Coming to US
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "Digital Home Software" @ 01:30 PM
"The Spotify music service will be coming to the U.S. in the third quarter of 2010, according to Spotify’s Senior VP. He tells Bloomberg: “We’re buying server space in random parts of the states and there are licensing discussions too.” All this is great news because it means U.S. users will soon be able to listen to just about any song or album from major and independent record labels in their entirety free, or without ads, for around $15/mo (in Europe the fee is €9.99/mo)."
Looks quite similar to Slacker Radio which I reviewed last year. If Spotify can get the licensing to cover almost every song and album, they'll do pretty well. Looks like they have clients for most of the major mobile platforms (with the exception of Windows), so you'll have lots of options.
