The much-loved European music service Spotify won’t be launching inside the US this year, as planned . Considering there’s just 23 days until the top of the year (and it was originally meant to launch last year), it’s not surprising.
According to reports, Spotify hasn’t actually signed a single licensing agreement with any music publishers. That’s cost them their many deadlines for launching within the US-and with Apple rumored to be readying a cloud-based streaming version of iTunes, if Spotify doesn’t launch within the next six months it can be far and wide, red rover.
In Europe, they’ve got 750,000 paying subscribers (myself included), who cough up a maximum of £10 a month for the streaming service. The free service is ad-supported, and unable to be used on cellphones. Daniel Ek, Spotify’s CEO, has said that after-or rather, if-the service launches within the States, it’ll cost $10 a month. [ CNET and Yahoo News
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