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# Move Over Pandora, Spotify Launches Mobile Radio
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/move-over-pandora-spotify-launches-mobile-radio/
- Published: 2012-06-19T07:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-06-19T07:56:00.000Z
- Description: If the Songza surge wasn't enough to make Pandora stock holders nervous, Spotify announced that they too getting deeper into mobile radio. A new mobile radio feature will be available. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/06/move-over-pandora-spotify-launches-mobile-radio.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

[![Mobile Radio with Justin Bieber](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2016767ad7f4e970b-75wi "Mobile Radio with Justin Bieber")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2016767ad7f4e970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

If the [**Songza surge**](https://www.hypebot.com/songza-ios-apps-downloaded-115-million-times-in-just-10-days/) wasn't enough to make **Pandora** stock holders nervous, **Spotify** announced that they too getting deeper into mobile radio. A new mobile radio feature will be available in the coming days as part of Spotify's next iOS update. An Android app update will follow within weeks. **Spotify Mobile Radio** strongly resembles Pandora, but draws on a deeper 15 million track catalog. **Features include:**

[![image from www.google.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2016767ad81ee970b-100wi "image from www.google.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2016767ad81ee970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

- Play millions of songs everywhere. Like on the desktop, mobile radio has the entire Spotify catalog.
- Create stations based on any artist, album or playlist, and let Spotify do the work. Skip tacks that don't fit.
- Give a track a thumbs up and it will be saved to a “Liked from Radio” playlist.
- Every time a song gets a thumbs up (or down), the app learns the user's taste.

In most territories, Spotify Mobile Radio will only be available to Premium users, with a free trial. But as a result of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) licensing laws, Spotify wil offer a standalone free version of the mobile radio feature in the US.

Spotify says thy are working to bring a free mobile radio service to Spotify users in all countries over time, subject to licensing.