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Originally Posted by nextri
Artists are starting to make money on it. The Free version is limited. Not sure how it works in the US at the moment, but here in Norway it started out as free and awesome to make people hooked on it.
Now after a couple of years they changed it so the free version has a limited amount of plays for each song, and 10 free hours per month or something. You also need to pay to be able to use it on your phone. I went from a free account to a paid account when they limited the free version, and I know a lot of others did as well. I think it's a business model that will work.
A quality product that is easier and more convenient to use than pirating music. They got the right idea, and will be able to succeed because of it.
I stopped downloading pirated music when I started using Spotify just because of how easy it is.
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That is how it was in the UK too.
In the States, it has gone straight in as a limited service. For like ten bucks a month of unlimited music, that is cheaper than even one physical album a month. Now, I still buy outside music. In fact, I have bought two albums this month already from groups I never even heard of before I found them on Spotify.
One of my new fave songs is an album track from a Swedish singer that I never heard of until this month. I can't even find the song on Youtube. So, I bought the album online.