Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm. The company was created in 2006, and the service launched to the public in 2008, offering a large library of licensed music that users could stream for free with advertising or by paying for a subscription. The business model helped to reduce online piracy by offering an easy legal alternative. It expanded to the United States in 2011 and added podcasts and audiobooks later. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018. Artists and labels have criticised the low payments per stream, and the service has become one of the largest in the music industry.
Before and after
- 5 January 2006Discovery of Loge
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 15 March 2006Founding of United Nations Human Rights Council
- from 24 March 2006 to 16 January 2011Premiere of Hannah Montana
- 23 April 2006Release of Spotify
- 28 April 2006Release of Google Translate
- 10 May 2006Founding of Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano
- 23 June 2006Creation of Xubuntu
- 24 June 2006Déjà Vu
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