iTunes Chart-Toppers (a/o February 21st):
"Today, Spotify becomes a music platform," Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told a small audience on Wednesday in New York. "We're launching truly integrated apps from the best developers inside Spotify. We turn Spotify into this platform, and third-party developers can make HTML5 apps that are seamlessly integrated, beautiful apps."
This is a family of Spotify-based apps, contained within the Spotify player. It's all based on the core Spotify collection, and here's the first-generation of partners...
RollingStone - not Pitchfork - was trotted on stage first, and publisher Jann Wenner just couldn't stop gushing. "If Spotify has had any issue up to this point, it's that it's been too much of a good thing," Wenner said. And here's what the RollingStone integration will look like.
Ek also noted that both free and paid consumers will have access to this. "It really doesn't matter," Ek relayed, though free limitations will mostly likely get translated into apps as well.
And make no mistake, the greater vision is about total ubiquity, brought to you by your friends at Spotify. "I hope it's pretty obvious why we're doing this," Ek said. "We want music to be like water: available everywhere, and shareable seamlessly."
"The ultimate goal is to be as ubiquitous as the CD, with all the obvious advantages of digital. We're even in cars, so now there's all these places where you can listen to the music you want to hear. The web isn't silent anymore, and we really want to turn up the volume."
So what will the artist and rightsholder communities think? That's a complicated and ongoing debate, but Ek always goes back to the slam dunk. "We've already become the second biggest revenue source for all the labels in Europe, second to iTunes. And we've paid more than $150 million back to labels so far,' Ek noted. "Here's what happens when our model gets to scale. Spotify is used by one-third of the Swedish population, and piracy decreased by 25 percent."
And of course, everyone's on board. "Professionals are really embracing Spotify, and there's really awareness that Spotify is helping the industry growing once more."
...or something like that!
Comments Closed
gaetano Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Can we please stop comparing music to water?
It's ridiculous, on too many levels.
Let's also stop comparing Spotify's numbers in Sweden (where funnily enough the Pirate Bay resides, along with lawmakers who are looking to pass a bill ok'ing piracy for "home or personal use")
Sweden is a tiny, and very specific market (it's also in scandinavia and has a completely different wealth distribution and gdp).
Are we really going to extrapolate this info and compare it to the US? The largest music market in the world?
blackswansongs Thursday, December 01, 2011
For more info about "music as water," read: http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/. The authors substantiate the analogy quite well. The book predicts what's happening now, as well as future technologies. It's really well done.
gaetano Thursday, December 01, 2011
Could you possibly paraphrase some of this for me?
You see, not too dissimilar to most of the music consuming population, I prefer to preview something before buying...or of course get it for free.
Thanks in Advance.
steveh Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Attention! Spotify is NOT the second biggest digital "revenue source" in Europe.
How can it be when it is not available in Germany (80 million population) and Italy (60 million population) and many other European countries?
More lies. It's all smoke and mirrors!
If "music is like water" then Spotify's goal is to become the monopoly water company. A nasty major music corporation far nastier than any of the major record labels.
Is this what we want? Truly is this what we really want? Surely not!!
Unknown Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Beyond lies and propaganda.
Sorry SPOT....my choons are sold on Dj Download, Juno, Itunes and Beatport World Wide. We are doing well and YOU CAN KISS MY TECHNO ASS. as you will never have our catalogue.
Let the majors sell out their artist to you. And no, you will not make ITUNES a thing of the pass.
D Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Awesome. I support innovation 100%
This can easily become the gateway drug to how we will consume
music. My one complaint I often receive from my friends is that they like
spotify, but they want to be told what they need to hear based on their
preference or mood (in so many words).
I support innovation 100% they are successfully finding ways to
eliminate piracy... now if we can get the release the stranglehold that
theaters have on movies...we'd be good...
I had a friend who asked where he can download free music... and
told me HE WILL NOT BUY any music... I asked him have he heard of
spotify/pandora 4 android... He downloaded the app and somewhere a few artists
got paid...
Yea.. it might be pennies per person...but if you have GREAT music
that people ACTUALLY WANT to hear... those pennies will soon add up :-)
Ever heard of CC? Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Funny how your friend doesn't want to support the Creative Commons community of artists and listen to music for free, legally...
@reynaud_ Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Reynaud
what Apple should have done to iTunes a long time ago.
blackswansongs Thursday, December 01, 2011
True dat...
mdti Wednesday, November 30, 2011
well, i guess it is good news for some who seek more exposure (well, in a way, because you would have to make it to those other apps before being linked on spotify...)...
Even for smaller labels and DIY, it can be interesting, through a renewal of the magazines' "release of the month" and so on, and not rely on a abstract text wrote by a music critic....
It could renew the content of those digital newspapers...
May be....
mdti Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Eventhough one can regret that it happens in a "monopolistic perspective" as all the technologies to make media rich content are available for a while....
lazyness of the industry in its rethinking ? obligation to submit to a monopolistic view ?
I don't think it is bad news, but i am sure it can tell a lot on the mind of the music industry as a whole, beit major labels, broadcasters, magazines and other players....
The abuse of dominant position is not so far i would day :-)
mdti Wednesday, November 30, 2011
i would say....
Gaetano Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Another issue to take into consideration is the fact that these specific partners will effectively become the new corporate filters, and in turn gatekeepers of this model...
@KeithMeyer25 Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Keith Meyer
Spotify wants to take over your internet music life.
Ignacio Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Is this platform open to anyone? And what's the approval process?
Tony van Veen Thursday, December 01, 2011
It's open to all artists, by going through a distributor like CD Baby.
As far as app developers, I'm assuming that there's an official approval process they have to go through.
@fingertipsmusic Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Jeremy Schlosberg
Ek still talking the "music like water" talk. This remains an adolescent analogy, and frightful concept.
blackswansongs Thursday, December 01, 2011
I highly recommend you read The Future of Music by David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard before dismissing the "music like water" analogy: http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/.
@jingw Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Jing
Big milestone for Spotify, congrats to the team!
@worksafebored Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Montgomery Smile
I hope it doesn't get lame.
Stefanie Marcus Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Can we please stop comparing music to water?
blackswansongs Thursday, December 01, 2011
I'd recommend you read the Future of Music by Gerd Leonhard and David Kusek. It will help you understand why the analogy is so prescient: http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/.
Things not always as they seem Thursday, December 01, 2011
The Swedish stats are somewhat disingenious in that they benefit immensely from having a deal with Sweden's largest broadband provider Telia. Telia subscribers get Spotify "bundled" so the # of users and usage is inflated.
wordo Thursday, December 01, 2011
it's funny that daniel ek always says that Spotify is a big source of revenue TO LABELS. And this probably means major labels, who don't pay the money to artists. And most of this money comes from the probability that the labels have some kind of ownership in Spotify unlike independent labels and certainly unlike the people who actually create the music.
Artists, as always get the shaft
blackswansongs Thursday, December 01, 2011
It's up to artists not to sign an onerous deal with the majors.
If an artist owns their own publishing, and registers with Sound Exchange, then they will receive all of the digital/streaming music royalties owed to them. Unfortunately, many artists don't even know what Sound Exchange is...
The guns of Wall Street Thursday, December 01, 2011
If Spotify thinks music should be like water, then run for your lives. The people who invested in Spotify destroyed a great number of Latin America's fresh water reserves.
Catherine Hol Thursday, December 01, 2011
Really? Can you elaborate?
Well Thursday, December 01, 2011
Not sure if its a direct correlation, but to even attempt to compare a basic, critical human need (water) to music as a decommodified resource, it's Batsh*t Crazy.
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