Wednesday 10 June 2015
Spotify says it now caters to 20 million paid subscribers and more than 75 million active users. The streaming music service garnered its first 10 million paid users over the course of five and a half years, and the next 10 million in the last year alone. The company claims to have paid over $3 billion in royalties to music publishers and labels in its lifetime. It also closed a $526 million funding round yesterday, bringing its valuation to $8.4 billion. With Apple slated to launch its own streaming service later this month, Spotify will certainly need some of that cash…
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