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Spotify Continues To Grow Faster Than Apple Music Thanks To Free Tier (macrumors.com)
Joe Rossignol reports via Mac Rumors: Spotify today announced it now has over 140 million subscribers worldwide, including users that only listen to the free ad-supported tier. Spotify last said it had over 100 million subscribers in June 2016, so it has gained around 40 million listeners in one year to remain the world's largest streaming music service. Spotify didn't update its number of paying subscribers, which stood at over 50 million worldwide as of March 2017. By comparison, Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference last week announced that Apple Music now has 27 million paying subscribers, just weeks before the streaming music service turns two years old. Apple Music doesn't have a free tier, and Apple doesn't regularly disclose how many users are using the free trial.
Technically they're paying by listening to advertising.
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if you're in college you get it for $5/mo. See, it's not just about growth, it's about the right kind of growth. The kind of people you can raise their rates on and they won't care because they still have jobs.
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... but we'll make it up in volume!
Sure, but there are only a handful of albums I would buy and cherish and listen to forever. Having a Spotify subscription does not prevent me from also buying select albums.
However, it does allow me to listen to new albums in great quality (no more shitty Youtube videos) without having to buy them first. This gives me a better basis for determining whether I actually want to buy it. And if (which is a very big "if") I decide to cancel my subscription, I'll still have all of that music, the music that matters most to me.
Do I like the occasional Pantera song, maybe in a playlist I'll make for a party? Sure. Do I like them enough to actually spend money on an album? Nah.
As for the "coolness" of a physical music library, that's highly subjective. Hundreds and hundreds of CDs start to take up a lot of space, never mind LPs.
Eat the rich.