Spotify reaches 40M users, 10M global subscribers

Its gaining traction and record shows it all. Proving that music streaming is having its momentum globally, Spotify recently announced that its user base has reached over 40 million across 56 markets worldwide.

Spotify Global Users

Spotify, the mst popular music streaming service also recorded 10 million paying subscribers, and since its launch in 2008, users have created over 1.5 billion playlists, collectively creating or updating over 5 million playlists each day.

Spotify offers the best free music experience in the history of the smartphone, giving users access to over 30 million of songs with amazing audio quality of up to 320kbps and other features such as playlist creation, music discovery, organization tools, and offline mode.

In the local market, Pinoy music lovers can enjoy free access to Spotify, which also offers the most extensive OPM songs, by subscribing to GoSURF, Globe Telecom’s mobile internet plan that offers megabytes (MB) of data consumable per kilobyte. The MBs in every GoSURF data plan are used to browse the Internet to surf, send and receive e-mails, update social networks, download games and apps, and more.

“With our exclusive partnership with Spotify, we strengthen our vision to provide an enriched online experience and access to free online content for our digitally-attuned customers, says Peter Bithos, Chief Operating Advisor at Globe. “With its extensive music catalogue and innovative features, Spotify gives us a new and exceptional way of listening to music. Coupled with our GoSURF data plan, our customers get to enjoy the best of both worlds; consumable mobile internet to do the things they love plus 30 million songs to listen to and share, all for free. Make your world sound wonderful with GoSURF and Spotify for a mobile experience like no other.”

Customers on GoSURF can enjoy free access to Spotify without worries as usage of the app will not consume allocated MBs for every GoSURF data plan.

How to subscribe with GoSurf

Register by texting GoSURF to 8888 or dial *143# and choose GoSURF. To know more about GoSurf and Spotify, visit www.globe.com.ph/surf/plan/gosurf.

Prepaid subscribers can register to GoSURF10 for as low as P10 for 10MB of data plus access to Spotify for an entire day. Postpaid customers can subscribe to GoSURF299 for as low as P299 for 700MB of data plus access to Spotify Premium for 30 days. Tattoo Prepaid customers can avail of GoSURF50 for as low as P50 for 250MB of data plus access to Spotify for 3 days.

Raffy Pedrajita

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Rafael Pedrajita is the founder of Tech Patrol and a seasoned freelancer and blogger who has been creating digital content since March 2010. Beyond his work in the tech space, he is a proud husband to his wife, Amor.

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