1. Jason Faul CS-110-3 Fall 2015

2. Brief History Spotify & Its Partners Spotify Popularity Spotify and Taylor Swift Top Played Songs What is Spotify?

3. Spotify is a music streaming service that provides digital rights management-restricted content from record labels and media companies. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label and is similar to one of its competitors, iTunes. More Information

4. History of Spotify Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon first started the idea of Spotify in Ek’s apartment, which is where they worked for months in 2005. Spotify released its first beta to the public in 2007. In 2008, Mark Zuckerburg described Spotify as “so good.” Spotify is finally launched to the United States in summer of 2011. By the summer of 2015, Spotify had 75,000,000 total users. Mark Zuckerberg More Information

5. Spotify and Taylor Swift Music artists often complain that they are undercompensated for their music on Spotify. Taylor Swift decided to take her music off of Spotify in 2014. "I'm not ready to donate my life's work to an experiment I don't feel fairly compensates" More Information

6. Spotify and Its Partners Facebook: Spotify automatically shows users what their friends are listening to and allows them to share playlists and new music with each other. Uber: Spotify and Uber announced an agreement where users can play their music during Uber rides. PlayStation: This allows PlayStation gamers to listen to their favorite music as they play video games. More Information Partnership Popularity

7. More Information Spotify Popularity In 2011, Spotify had 1,000,000 paid subscribers. After launching in the United States, Spotify had 24 million active users streamed over 4.5 billion hours of music in 2013. In the summer of 2015, Spotify had 20,000,000 paying users, 75,000,000 total users Listener’s Average Age

8. Top Played Songs 1.Summer by Calvin Harris 2.Dark Horse by Katy Perry 3.All of Me by John Legend Complete Chart