{"id":3077,"date":"2015-06-07T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2015-06-07T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:26:52","slug":"music-streaming-spotify-has-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/06\/07\/music-streaming-spotify-has-won","title":{"rendered":"Music streaming &#8211; Spotify has won?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems clear that Spotify <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/apple-to-announce-new-music-services-1433183201\">won<\/a> the music streaming battle:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Spotify accounts for 86% of the on-demand music-streaming market in the U.S., according to data shared with music publishers. Its share of the international market is believed to be similar.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m an ardent Rdio user. However, they\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/status\/601928698141364224\">lost songs<\/a> that I want to listen to (in my playlists). And I just noticed that they\u2019ve also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/status\/607520613587021824\">killed<\/a> Amazon Payments as a method of payment. They\u2019re taking much less than 14% of the market, and were costing me USD$9.99\/month.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I\u2019m moving to Spotify. But I\u2019ll hang in there to see what Apple launches in the meantime (you see, sometimes I might want to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/01\/03\/taylor-swift-the-music-industry\">some<\/a> Taylor Swift). My major beef is with playlists \u2013 I\u2019ve invested time in curating that experience, and I need to find an easy way out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Music%20streaming%20-%20Spotify%20has%20won%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F06%2F07%2Fmusic-streaming-spotify-has-won&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Its share of the international market is believed to be similar. I\u2019m an ardent Rdio user. However, they\u2019ve lost songs that I want to listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Music%20streaming%20-%20Spotify%20has%20won%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F06%2F07%2Fmusic-streaming-spotify-has-won&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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