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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by wilsonnb on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:06PM (#16748035)
Spotify's market share is currently being attacked on both ends.

Apple Music is supposedly set to surpass Spotify in number of paid subscribers this summer.

Youtube has always had more free listeners than Spotify, as far as I know.

It's not at all clear who the major players in the music streaming business will be five years from now, which means that all of the power remains with the owners of the music that people want to listen to. AKA the major record labels.

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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by rofrol on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:13PM (#16759153)
>Apple Music is supposedly set to surpass Spotify in number of paid subscribers this summer.

Where did you get this info? Look at the graph

https://www.statista.com/chart/8399/spotify-apple-music-paid...

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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by hetspookjee on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:04PM (#16749198)
YouTube being insanely slow with rolling out Red doesn't help YouTube their business. I really wanted YouTube to have Red in Europe but they cant or won't so I moved over to Spotify because no ads and massive quality increase.
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