That streaming music is here to stay and become a real alternative to piracy and the traditional way of consuming music, no one doubts at this point. The sale of music in physical format, as in digital format, has decreased considerably in recent years since users prefer to always have their favorite music on hand by paying a monthly fee, either to Spotify, Apple Music or any other service music streaming such as those offered by Google or Microsoft, which have also put their heads in this sector although they have not just emerged and announce official figures on the number of subscribers. Who if it does is Spotify, who according to we can read in the last entry in its press blog, has reached 60 million subscribers.
In the same article, the company says that it currently has 140 million users, of which 60 are paid while 80 enjoy streaming music for free with ads. But the latter are going to see how access to the extensive Spotify catalog is altered with the launch of the new albums of the three major labels, since according to the latest agreements that Spotify has reached, the new discs will only be available to paid subscribers for a limited time, during the first weeks of release to later reach all users.
Spotify has been seen to reach an agreement of this type to try to reduce royalties that it has to pay them, to be able to get out of the red numbers in which it is once and for all and to be able to go public in the next few years, an idea that they have had in their heads for just over a year. Taking into account that Spotify is available in only 60 countries, it must be recognized that the success it has achieved in the last year has a lot of merit, gaining about 10 million subscribers every 4 months, figures that Apple does not come close to. , whose music streaming service is available in more than 100 countries.
