After what seems like year’s of rumours, speculation and broken promises, Spotify is finally coming to America and it will launch tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow morning, users in the US will be able to sign up for both paid tiers of Spotify’s service – $4.99 per month for its unlimited ad-free service and $9.99 for the premium mobile version.
It’s much talked about free tier will arrive in the coming weeks and will offer users a limited amount of listening time a month before you are cut off, just like with Spotify in Europe now.
The good news is that the service will be available on all the platforms which are available in Europe – so you can expect to find the app on iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Phone and Palm.
When the free service arrives, Spotify will be the only free, on-demand music streaming service available in the U.S. on mobile and desktop which will definitely make it enticing to users.
Ken Parks, chief content officer at Spotify declared that US consumers are going to love Spotify: “It’s lightning fast. It’s dead simple to use. We’ve made it very easy to share music. And we’ve made it extremely easy to share your collection with friends. Free is also pretty great value.”
Apparently Park and Co have lofty expectations for the music streaming site and want to achieve 50 million paying subscribers within a year.
Currently, Spotify has one million paying subscribers across the U.K, Finland, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Spain, so the 50 million number seems a little inflated. But with a deal with Facebook apparently in the works the 50 million could be achievable.
US-based and considering getting Spotify today? We strongly recommend it, so let us know how you get on by tweeting us!