The Swedish music streaming service has taken a run since the launch of Apple Music and continues to add new followers of streaming music and currently we have more than double that of Apple Music. Last June, in the framework of WWDC 2017 in which the news of iOS 11, watchOS 4, tvOS 11 and macOS High Sierra were presented, Tim Cook announced that the streaming music service of the Cupertino boys had reached 27 million subscribers. Is now Spotify, who has risen to his chest and has just announced on its press website that it already has 60 million subscribers.
According to the latest figures, Spotify is attracting the attention of 10 million users every four months, since the latest official figures that the company announced in March of this year, showed us that the platform had reached 50 million subscribers. At the end of June, Spotify has 140 million users, 80 of whom enjoy the music service with ads, a service that after the agreements reached by the Swedish company with the major record companies will begin to suffer restrictions, since they will not have access to the latest albums released for approximately one month.
Spotify wants to get out of the red numbers in which it has been practically since the service was launched, and the latest agreement it has signed with the big three shows us a reduction in the amount of royalties you have to pay to them in exchange for limiting playback to paying subscribers temporarily. As my colleague José has informed you, Spotify wants to get fully into the world of podcasts to become an alternative to Apple's Podcasts, and other podcasting services currently available on the market, in order to expand the number of services. that it offers us and that will surely serve so that this type of content begins to gain popularity among users.
