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OFFICIAL: Spotify Has 50 Million Paid Subscribers

Spotify newSpotify yesterday confirmed that it now has more than 50 million paid subscribers to its Premium streaming music service. That's up 25% from the 4o million announced 7 months ago in September of 2016.  

Spotify took to Twitter to make today's announcement.

Thank you to our 50 million subscribers. #Spotify50 pic.twitter.com/eXkOV71bwu

— Spotify (@Spotify) March 2, 2017

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Bruce Houghton on 03/03/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Amazon Music, Apple Inc., Apple Music, Compact disc, Comparison of on-demand streaming music services, Grammy Award, Jay-Z, Netflix, Prince (musician), Purple Rain (film), Spotify, Streaming media, The New York Times, Tidal (service), Twitter, Warner Bros.
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