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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:45AM (#16753305)
Only in the US, Spotify is huge in Europe and other parts of the world, where Apple Music is basically unknown.
Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by abalone on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:53PM (#16757172)
Spotify is actually small in the world. All music service subscribers combined are a mere ~110 million.

Eddy Cue recent pegged the market opportunity at 2 billion.[1]

And Apple Music ramping the fastest.[2]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-music-hits-38-million-subscr...

[2] https://twitter.com/asymco/status/973568200616050688?ref_src...

Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:00PM (#16759029)
Comparing Spotify to other streaming services, obviously.

Apple music is basically a no-show in Europe and Asia.

And those numbers are only paid subs. Spotify has a ton of free, ad-listening users.