Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers

Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by rchaud on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:58AM (#34597706)

I have no idea. Perhaps use its enormous market share to negotiate lower fees? Or pay more podcasters and turn it into satellite radio 2.0, which is what appears to be happening.

Either way it shouldn't take a decade fo figure out, they are not curing disease or developing spacecraft. How did Tower Records and HMV do it? They didnt have Spotify's monopoly position and had to compete against Walmart and Best Buy.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by nebula8804 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:27PM (#34598255)

>How did Tower Records and HMV do it? They didnt have Spotify's monopoly position and had to compete against Walmart and Best Buy.

Probably forcing people to buy 15-20$ cds when all people wanted was that one 99 cent song.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by epistemer on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:49PM (#34606106)

The old music business thrived on vinyl then 8 track then cassettes then CDs.

$15 in 1985 is about $40 adjusted for inflation and they convinced people to buy the same music multiple times. To even find that music you liked enough to buy multiple times too you probably bought 5 albums that you thought sucked.

I can remember as a kid in the 80s too that my father and all his friends easily had 500+ vinyl albums on display in their homes. Then those started collecting dust as they bought hundreds of cds.

It is just so different now. Imagine spending $40 bucks for 10 songs and have no idea if you will even like them. That is a totally different racket.

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