Spotify has more than 15 million paying subscribers
and 60 million active users, with both numbers being passed towards
the end of 2014. The music-streaming service last gave details on
user numbers in November, when it had 12.5 million paying
customers.
The continued growth of Spotify comes despite much-publicised criticism
from certain artists and record labels. Last year it made headlines
when Taylor Swift pulled her entire
back catalogue, labelling the service an "experiment" that doesn't
fairly compensate writers, producers, artists and creators of
music.
"I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception
that music has no value and should be free," she said at the time.
Swift said that putting music on Spotify was the same as creating a
painting only for someone to rip a corner off it and claim it as
theirs.
In May 2014 Spotify had 40 million active non-paying
users, with that number increasing by 20 million in the latest
figures. The company marked the milestone with a playlist featuring artists including Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran,
Daft Punk and Katy Perry.
By the end of 2014 Spotify announced that it had paid
musicians more than two billion dollars in royalties, but it continues to draw ire
from some corners of the industry. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke
once described it as "the last desperate fart of a dying
corpse".
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Speaking to WIRED.co.uk in May 2014, Spotify CEO Daniel Elk
said that while the music industry wasn't stupid, it was slow to
accept change:
"They are just waking up to
what's happening, but as with any large corporation they face the
innovator's dilemma. But I'm positive that they're getting there,"
he said.
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Spotify now has 60 million users
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