How much Spotify is extended in the world? How much people use it now a days? Comparing with Soundcloud and Youtube?

I'm from Italy and let's say more or less half of mu friend use it to listen to music. But the others?

 

ATM Spotify has around 50 Millions of paying subscribers.
There's a wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

Statistics for 2017: https://www.statista.com/statistics/244995/number-of-paying-spotify-subscribers/

In the US alone the user base - paid and nonpaid - member accounts is around 100 millions.

Youtube has much more users, but they not so bound to the service as spotify users, I think.

Pros for spotify: a huge paying user base, embedded search, on- and offline music
Cons: Smaller user base, smaller company, business experts say spotify may fail because of business model (losses from the beginning and no good chances of a change).

 

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Spotify seems as good as ubiquitous - I submit my music to it because of the potential for anyone in the world to hear it without having to pay to do so, and I don't have to pay to create that opportunity. I just accept that I'll be paid next-to-nothing for the privilege.

What I would like to know is how common it might be for people to actually discover new music (music that's new to them) via Spotify – or whether they just try to listen to artists already known or familiar to them. At one of the places I work, the staff take turns playing music via Spotify to be heard in the whole establishment, but they either select music by bands they have liked for years or default to playlists that they had compiled quite some time ago - with their tastes remaining in their comfortable ruts, not welcoming any adventure.

 

I started using it recently, I think it's a great way to find new music, but it's not really a replacement for Soundcloud, since you need to have a label to get your music there, so you won't find a lot of smaller artists or some unofficial remixes there.

 

So, you don't own all the rights or you don't collect all the royalties? That's the only reason you'd be paid less than you would get from physical sales or downloads. Unless of course, you know, it's due to the size of your audience and I don't think that's spotify's fault.

 

Most older people tend to live in the past, musically. So precreated compilations for them.
The younger users mostly try to discover new music to widen their compilations. Some functions of the desktop app e.g. Discover - "Mix of the week" will show them songs that match their musical taste based on the songs they have in their list. Another one is "Release Radar"

So, as always, it depends.

 

Yes it was the same for me. But some weeks ago I bought a network connected appliance from Bose for my living room, my bedroom and my workplace. All three use spotify and so my music follows me, whereever I am. Quite appealing to me, so I don't use my huge MP3 collection as much as before. Only special recordings and some artists I won't find on spotify.

But will spotify survive? Not so sure, as they burnt a lot of $$$ the last ~10 years and that doesn't seem to change in the forseeable future.

 

Take your advertorial bs elsewhere.

 

Wow, Spotify is the world's biggest streaming music services. And it's the best one I like to use to listen to music offline on my device.
It also enables free user to access to over 35 million songs, which is very a big deal. Although free users can listen to Spotify files online, there are a lot of Windows Music Converter for Spotify to download Spotify playlist offline listening. So I like Spotify.

 

if we compare it to the soundcloud and youtube this is become of the tough competitor of them. And many poples loves it much more than soundcloud and youtube.