How Spotify Dominates Apple, Google And Amazon In Music

Streaming has become this decade’s preferred way of listening to music. It’s an $11 billion dollar industry, making up 47% of global music industry revenues, and Spotify has become the clear winner globally in terms of paid subscribers. Taking on behemoths like Apple, Amazon and Google, Spotify has dominated the global streaming music industry with about 130 million premium subscribers world-wide. Recently, Spotify secured distribution deals with Joe Rogan and Kim Kardashian West to produce podcasts for the platform. Watch CNBC’s deep-dive into how Spotify started, how it became the audio leader, and where what’s to come next.

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How Spotify Dominates Apple, Google And Amazon In Music

[professionalfacepuncher]

we all know the main reason Spotify is more successful, because of the default dark themed UI from day 1.

[troystevens]

Let’s be honest, no one uses amazon music unless you already had prime.

[MrSaLVideos]

Spotify is to music what Netflix is to streaming entertainment.

[MyaWho]

Spotify looks better, preforms better as an app, doesn’t lag or hitch, great features for playlists and discovery. It’s just a no brainer

[Loveisfun]

The thing that'll also shake up things from spotify, is if they start releasing audio books for the service.

[TracksideViews]

Premium Spotify is always money well spent.

[ShadowRaptor]

These CNBC mini documentaries have been fantastic this past year

[Batmann]

Honestly I don’t know what I would do without Spotify. I have over 4000 songs sorted into 18 different playlists at the moment based on genre/mood. Spotify for me is probably the most game changing app in my life since I’m always listening to music

[petesins]

Most importantly, with Spotify you arent just listening to music you like, spotify ui and algorithm allows you to discover music you didnt even know you like.

[AwesomeDwarves]

Future episode: How CNBC Dominated The Mini-Documentary Youtube Scene

[rakeshraja]

The reasons I use Spotify
1.clean ui
2.music quality
3. discover weekly (most important of all)

[davidfrischknecht]

I love the Daily Mixes that Spotify creates for me.

[haritvsmurali]

With its Free Tier, Spotify truly 'democratized' music for all, like YouTube did for videos.

[dyslexicstoner]

Let's be glad huge megacorporations like Apple, Google, and Amazon don't dominate the entertainment industries. Spotify owns the music industry, Netflix owns streaming, and Valve owns the gaming industry. Just as it should be.

[loosebands]

i rreally want spotify to add lyrics !!! i remember years ago you could see lyrics on the desktop version

[ain]

Long time Spotify premium member here. No complaints.

[Jeevanmn]

Spotify wins coz of it’s algorithm and clean uncluttered UI.

[jameschristensen]

literally the only thing keeping me from switching to apple music is cause spotify does that fun end of the year wrap up thing they do

[ricklancaster]

I like being able to see stats on the artist and their music.

[alexturlais]

If Spotify introduced an audiobook section, even just public domain stories, I could see them easily dominating Audible and further expanding from just music.