Spotify Set To Hit The United States Soon

Spotify Set To Hit The United States Soon

Brace yourselves – according to The Christian Science Monitor, those madmen in Stockholm have created a music application which “may wipe out music piracy, make Apple’s iTunes largely irrelevant, and even supplant ABBA as Sweden’s most significant pop culture export. It’s called Spotify.”  Now read quickly, as I’m having to type this on the fly as several poison blow-darts fired by Steve Jobs are embedding themselves in the wall next to my head.

Spotify is a downloadable digital jukebox that allows listeners to hear any song of their choice.  For free.  And legally—imagine that:

“With its gray interface, Spotify almost resembles iTunes. But all the music is streamed instead of downloaded – so, the songs are computer-bound and will not transfer to an iPod. As long as listeners are within speaker’s-reach of their PC, the only speed bump is a 20-second ad every 30 minutes. (Alternatively, users can also purchase a premium, commercial-free service.)”

Before you go on the hunt for said magical program, note that the program is currently not available in the United States and can only be had in Europe.  But, according to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, the U.S version “is coming.”  He also claims that the program will not only revolutionize the music industry, it just might save it:

“Right now, 95 percent of all downloads are illegal… We’re looking to take this 95 percent of music fans and bring them into a user-friendly, legal environment where they can get exactly what they want while also contributing money to the artists by either listening to ads, subscribing to the service, purchasing downloads, or, in the near future, buying gig tickets and merchandising on Spotify.”

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