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MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE Spotify today announced it was launching a new service, whereby premium users can add five separate accounts to their monthly bill.
“Spotify Family” will be “rolled out” worldwide over the next few weeks, the company said in a statement earlier, but appears to be available as of now in Ireland.
A standard Spotify premium account – which allows offline streaming, unlimited song-skipping and no ads – costs €9.99 a month at present.
The new package would allow up to four additional premium accounts – with separate playlists and preferences – but using the same bill.
Essentially, each additional user will cost you an extra fiver a month, meaning Spotify Family varies from €14.99 for you and one other person, to €29.99 for you and four of your lucky, lucky friends/siblings.
As they point out, this constitutes a 50% discount for each of the additional users.
Today’s major new announcement is clearly an effort to entice more Spotify users to “go premium.”
In May, the company announced they had added an incredible 16 million new users in 2013, bringing their total listeners to 40 million.
Crucially, though, only 10 million of those are paid, premium subscribers.
The prospect of five people (including one very trusting bill-payer) getting together to pay €6 each per month, as opposed to €10 (an annual saving of €48 each), could well change that.
Which could prove particularly important in light of ongoing rumours about a Spotify IPO being imminent some time this autumn.
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Bernie…Bernie come back ..we’re sorry don’t leave us with this muppit….
@David cotter: if it was Bernie v Trump…then Trump would definitely win…. he’ll probably win anyway but Bernie would make it a certainty.
@SFAnkleTapper: Trump would disagree with you. He’s on tape as saying Sanders would have beat him in 2016 and a lot of Trump voters would have voted for Sanders also.
@SFAnkleTapper: What on earth are you talking about? Every single recent poll has Bernie Sanders and Biden both beating Trump in a general election. Not even Fox News has Trump winning.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/
@Benedict XVI: would they be the same polls that had Hillary as a shoe in? Btw I’m no Trump supporter.
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: your actually using Trump as a basis for a credible story….
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden is a bumbling clown who needs to retire, check his gaffes on YouTube. Bernie would be far stronger them sleepy Joe.
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden’s greatest strength is that it is Trump he is going to be running against. Trump makes Biden’s weaknesses less blatant and Biden is a clear contrast to the type of president Trump is. If it was Biden competing against any other candidate, then I wouldn’t bet on Biden. But with Trump anything is possible (both for Trump and against Trump).
@Benedict XVI: Don’t believe those polls and don’t be taking it too serious. You are most likely going to be disappointed when the results come in.
@SFAnkleTapper: Even though it hurts me to say this,i agree with you in saying that Biden has a much better chance than Bernie.Where I won’t agree with you is dissing the polls that Benedict put up,Trump is not up against Hillary this time.Also,he’ll struggle in the Rust Belt..
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: brilliant, Trump saying that was to try to further divide a very fractured democrat party not an actual acknowledgement that he could have lost.
@David cotter: Bernie is from Ireland? Or do you watch the West wing too much
I thought Democrats where bad when they selected Hillary Clinton as there presidential candidate 4 years but they’ve really outdone themselves this time round
America always gets the politicians it deserves.
@David Shiels: This is a recurring theme for you, am I right? For the record, I like Joe Biden. I would have preferred Bernie.
@David Shiels: Like us? Haughy, Cowan, Ahern, Adams etc.
@Kevin O’ Brienhttps://youtu.be/-rUvUxynOgk
@Macus Mc Mahon: ok
Sanders making a habit of giving up. His voters must be p*ssed off at this.
The only way Biden will win is if he has a decent vice president nomination or if the trump brigade give up on their chosen one. Biden has completely lost the left and continues to put his foot in it further.
@Gerald OBrien the left have lost themselves
have your say