Next Big Sound (a/o May 16th):
Spotify first landed in the US on July 14th, 2011, which means this Saturday will mark its one year anniversary in the States. So how's it doing? Here's a look at a few metrics, based on information pulled from Spotify, leaks, and analyst estimates.
July 14, 2011: 0
July 14, 2012: ~800,000 (est.)*
July 14, 2011: 0
July 14, 2012: ~4 million (est.)*
(note: year one expectation set by Spotify: 50 million users)
July 14, 2011: unlimited (w/ ads)
July 14, 2012: unlimited (w/ ads)
July 14, 2011: ~$200 mm.
July 14, 2012: ~$300-$400 mm. expected.
July 14, 2011: 'more than 10 million'**
July 14, 2012: 'more than 10 million'**
July 14, 2011: 1.6 million (per Spotify).
July 14, 2012: 3 million (latest per Spotify, early June)
App suite launch.
Black Keys holdout.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire licensing.
Heavy windowing by Coldplay, Adele, others.
Discovery of 'evil tracking cookie'
Launch of free, Pandora-like Radio tier.
Coca-Cola partnership.
Sector sell-offs: MOG, we7 sold at modest valuations.
iCloud growth continues.
*estimates based on April leaks, straight-lined into July.
**per Spotify figures in both cases, in July, 2011, and last updated in May. Most feel this is intentionally low-balled.
VII. Amount paid to artists Thursday, July 12, 2012
June 14, 2011: $0
June 14, 2012: $0
Some things never change.
david@indigoboom Friday, July 13, 2012
That is just not true.
Just one of our artists made roughly 3000$ per month from spotify streams alone in Q1 2012
HansH Friday, July 13, 2012
Good to hear. Please disclose more details. Proof is what we need.
David@indigoboom Monday, July 16, 2012
What kind of details would you like?
@mattadownes Thursday, July 12, 2012
lmao
FarePlay Friday, July 13, 2012
Even with Spotify's perceived exploitative compensation model for artists, will Spotify ever be profitable?
Will Spotify continue to dilute the value of music even further by offering coporations Spotify Apps; enabling Fortune 500 companies access to music with a pass through to Spotify's artist compensation?
Is the unlimited file sharing model an economically sustainable model for anyone? If so at what price to the subscriber and at what cost to the artists?
Paradox Friday, July 13, 2012
Spotify reached 3,000,000 paid subscriber back on Jan 26, 2012.
(not June 2012 as reported by Digital Music News)
Google Spotify 3 million subscribers and you get a lot of report back in Jan 26-27, 2011.
paul Friday, July 13, 2012
The intent was to point to the latest, most up-to-date subscriber figure from Spotify, not when they first claimed to reach the threshold.
/paul
@alex_esser Friday, July 13, 2012
That's 800.000 new paying subscribers in US
only or $8M / month
Visitor Friday, July 13, 2012
Dylan also licensed-- pretty big deal for some of us fogeys.
Visitor Friday, July 13, 2012
so has zappa..the lure of the coin cannot be resisted forever
FarePlay Friday, July 13, 2012
Zappa's dead. You think he's pissed?
Central Scrutinizer Friday, July 13, 2012
I think I hear a Pooh's attorney on the phone
Casey Friday, July 13, 2012
Another notable development was the buyout of Napster by Rhapsody. Not directly related to Spotify but it could be included under sector sell-offs.
Another interesting statistic to know would be how much their catalog has grown over the period of 1 year. However I do not think there are accurate statistics availabe for what the size of the US catalog is.
Super Saturday, July 14, 2012
Another notable development is Spotify becoming tied up to Facebook and requiring a Facebook account from all new users since September 22nd 2011.
After the tie-up, extreme spam on Facebook began, which exposed the service to lots of people.
@magzape Saturday, July 14, 2012
when will Spotify arrive in Italy?
@pouchatron Saturday, July 14, 2012
Why haven't they announced a million subscribers here?
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