Spotify:Fast Facts

Spotify: Fast Facts A quick guide to Spotify

What is Spotify? Play, discover and share for free Spotify is a new way to listen to music. We’re the Think of Spotify as the world’s music collection, free, world’s biggest music streaming service, giving you free legal, and at your fingertips. It’s how music should be. and instant access to over 18 million* tracks, any time you like. • Search for any track or album and hit play – it’s that simple. Now you can get all the music you’ll ever need, • Build your own library of playlists and share them wherever you are, on your computer, your mobile, your with friends with one click. iPad, and many more of your favourite devices. • Discover new music – check out your friends’ music collections, plus get inspired with great Spotify Apps like Last.fm, Rolling Stone and Spotify Radio. Choose how you listen

There are three ways to enjoy Spotify:

Spotify Free – millions of tracks for free, with ads to pay the music makers.

Spotify Premium – the ultimate Spotify experience. Unlimited, ad-free music to your computer, iPad, mobile and favourite devices. Plus, store your playlists and listen offline – no connection needed.

Better for artists, better for everyone Spotify is drawing people away from piracy. We’ve created a better, more convenient alternative where every single play results in revenue for artists and rights holders. It’s better for everyone.

Give me some numbers

Paying subscribers: Number of songs: Over 3 million Over 18 million*

Active users: Number of new songs added per day: Over 10 million** Over 20,000 Ratio of paying subscribers to active free users: Number of playlists: Over 20% Over 500 million have been created so far

Labels signed to Spotify: Number of countries in which Spotify is available: Over 300,000 15 - USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Revenue paid to rightsholders Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, France, since launch: Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and The $250m / €200m Netherlands

*Number of tracks licensed globally. Catalogue size varies in each country. ** Users active within the previous 30 days Spotify is the soundtrack to your social life

Share music with friends Spotify is all about sharing. Whether it’s a track you love, or a whole playlist, it’s never been easier to discover and share music with your friends.

Spotify and Facebook It’s a match made in heaven. Thanks to Spotify and Facebook, you can see what your friends are listening to, and hit play to hear their tracks instantly. Together, we can give you all these great social features:

• Music Dashboard – check out your friends’ top tracks and recent playlists, and see what’s trending. • Ticker – see what your friends are listening to right now, hit play to listen too. • Stories – you get musical stories based on what you and your friends are listening to.

Sharing playlists Being able to share whole playlists is one of the best features of Spotify. And it’s really simple – literally one-click-simple, using Facebook, Twitter, Messenger or via email.

Collaborative playlists You can even create a playlist with a group of friends, each of you adding or removing tracks until you’ve got your own soundtrack.

Play Button Add the Spotify Play Button to your blog, website or social page to feature any song, album or playlist. All your followers have to do is hit play to enjoy the music, totally free, totally legal. Spotify Apps: a new world inside Spotify The best brands in the world on Spotify As if instant access to the world’s music collection wasn’t enough, there are free Spotify Apps too. Anybody can create a Spotify App. And we’re delighted to say that some of the brightest and best brands in the world are doing just that.

There are apps to discover music, get expert reviews, create instant playlists, hear about gigs and more. They’re already inside Spotify, so you can start using them with a click.

Meet the apps There’s TuneWiki for lyrics, or Moodagent to match the perfect music to your mood. For great new music recommendations, there’s The Guardian, Rolling Stone and We Are Hunted, or Last.fm for personalised recommendations based on the music you play.

Spotify Radio Not forgetting Spotify Radio. If you settle into a nice groove with a new artist or band, Spotify Radio will line up similar artists for you to listen to. Some you may know, some may be a wonderful new discovery.

More apps on the way And there’s more on the way - lots of them Some are already in the pipeline, others are just a twinkle in a web developer’s eye. But one thing’s for sure - Spotify Apps will help us all enjoy more music and in many new and exciting ways. Spotify Timeline

May, 2012 Spotify launches in Australia & New Zealand

May, 2012 March, 2012 Spotify for iPad Spotify launches in Germany

January, 2012 Spotify reaches 3 million paying subscribers

November, 2011 November, 2011 Spotify launches in Spotify launches Apps platform Austria, Belgium and Switzerland November, 2011 Spotify made available for September, 2011 Windows Phone 7 Spotify announces music integration with Facebook

July, 2011 Spotify launches in the United States

May, 2011 Spotify introduces new download store and iPod sync March, 2011 Spotify reaches 1 million paid subscribers

March, 2011 Spotify available on Onkyo home cinema January, 2011 receivers Spotify and Logitech join forces January, 2011 Spotify and Shazam team up October, 2010 Spotify made available for Palm

October, 2010 Spotify made available for Windows phones 6.x

May, 2010 Sonos partners with Spotify April, 2010 May, 2010 Spotify debuts social features and Spotify comes to The Netherlands local files sync

April, 2010 Launch of Spotify Open (free service with no invite required) and Unlimited

October, 2009 November, 2009 Start of Telia partership Spotify partnership with 3 Mobile begins in UK

September. 2009 November, 2009 Spotify launches on iPhone and Mobile apps launch on Nokia, Sony Android phones Ericsson and Samsung smartphones

March, 2009 Spotify reaches one million registered users January, 2009 U2 release album on Spotify a week October, 2008 before it hits shops Spotify launches in Finland, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden and UK