Last week Spotify launched their long-awaited Belgian version. Many people believe Spotify to be the future of the music industry. The concept is simple: access to a huge catalogue where “the cloud” provides any music you want. If you don’t mind some advertisement you can stream music for free, if you do, you just pay five or ten euro a month. For five euro you aren’t bothered with any advertising and for ten euro you can also play your music offline. Spotify is legal, but that does not mean the artists can get rich of it. The artists get only a very small amount of the turnovers. It is, however, better for an artist to get played on Spotify than for example Youtube, where he would get nothing for his efforts. Spotify is currently available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Whether Spotify will be the success it is expected to become remains to be seen.

05-12-2011 om 19:06 geschreven door Lukas Pysson