Det er siviløkonomstudentene Anders Sørbo og Richard Bjerkøe som har undersøkt
pengestrømmen i norsk musikkindustri de siste ti årene. Og resultatet de
kommer fram til i sin mastergradsoppgave er egnet til å vekke oppsikt. For
stikk i strid med tidligere undersøkelser om norske kunstneres levekår,
viser undersøkelsen at norske musikkartister har hatt en formidabel
lønnsvekst de siste ti årene.

Hvis Spotify-sjef Daniel lykkes med å gjøre suksess i verdens største musikkmarked, er det gode sjanser for at musikktjenesten vil komme seirende ut av årets store streamingkrig. FOTO: CECILIE ASKER Vil la musikken flyte
Spotify-sjef Daniel Ek mener den beste veien til å vinne streamingkrigen er å gjøre musikk like tilgjengelig som vann.

Listen to your favourite playlists. Anywhere.
Playlistify enhances and simplifies your musical journey by making finding, sharing and baking playlists supereasy:
What do you want to do?
Bake playlists for Spotify or online sharing and playing from iTunes, Winamp, Youtube, Last.fm with the Playlistify Convertor.
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Discover and share great playlists via the Playlistify Directory. Playlistify-urls can be shared via our own http://pli.st url shortener.

Sweden, long considered one of the world’s most welcoming havens for digital piracy, is now showing signs of turning back toward legal, licensed music, both online and in stores. Music sales in Sweden rose 10.2 percent last year, according to the recording companies’ international trade group, even as they fell by nearly 10 percent worldwide, continuing a nearly decade-long downward spiral.Industry executives credit a combination of incentives for music fans to switch, including tougher action to crack down on illegal file-sharing and the spread of new services like Spotify, which has its roots in Sweden.In addition to the guilty verdict against the Pirate Bay’s founders, Sweden served up a new law last year making it easier for copyright owners to take file-sharers to court. Meanwhile, Spotify, which sells advertising and premium subscriptions to users who prefer to skip the ads, was being used by 17 percent of the Swedish population by the end of 2009, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. That helped the industry nearly double its revenue from digital music in Sweden. Revenue from streaming services like Spotify more than quadrupled, while sales of downloads from services like iTunes rose 28 percent. Even CDs eked out a 1.9 percent sales increase.

libspotify 0.0.3 - Now also for x86_64
January 15, 2010, 10:44
We are back after the holidays and happy to announce a new version of libspotify, now with 64 bit support. This version of the API also features support for browsing Toplists. See the ChangeLog for a list of all changes.
As usual, if you have any questions or feedback, just head over to the forum or meet us in #spotify on irc.freenode.net.

Much more interesting, though, are the conversations with Google that
we’ve confirmed. The two companies sketched out a plan where Spotify’s
excellent Android application would be build into the 2.1 version of
Android and would launch in the U.S. with the Google
Nexus One phone on January 5. The
application – which is available in Europe and allows for offline
syncing of songs – would give Google a much needed competitive answer to
Apple’s iTunes. The Android could realistically be seen as a media
consumption device, like the iPhone, with things like Spotify built into
it.

Er de ulovlige fildelerne også de største musikkelskerne? Ifølge en britisk undersøkelse bruker de i det minste mest penger på lovlige musikkjøp. ( Foto: Lund Joacim )
Fildelere handler mest musikk
Musikkpirater bruker mer penger på lovlig musikk.

I’ve spent some time thinking about the last twelve months and I wanted to mark the one year anniversary of Spotify with a few thoughts about where we have got to as a business. I’ve set those out below.

Spotify has a long way to go but this continued support from the music industry in the face of a recession and rampant piracy has made the difference and I feel that we are set up to succeed with this kind of willingness to innovate and try new things from the music industry…together we can do even better things. So, here is my view on Spotify and where we have reached after a year in business

Daniel Ek’s Spotify has taken the gobal music industry by storm. Even in markets it hasn’t launched in yet (including the US), Spotify is generating colossal amounts of attention. Music lovers have discovered ways to circumvent regional limitations on the software and are already enjoying the service heralded by some as the future of the music industry.

You’ve seen the demos, we’ve gotten the approvals and now Spotify is mobile.
Today we’re really excited to announce that Spotify is available to our premium subscribers for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android platforms. The Spotify app is downloadable in both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market.
We’ve worked hard to bring you the same great Spotify experience you’re already familiar with to your phone. The mobile apps will allow you to take the entire Spotify catalogue and put it in your pocket. You can use our ‘offline mode’ to make playlists available at all times, even when no connection is available, perfect for that ride on the tube or long flight across the Atlantic.
Launching these apps is our first step at going mobile and we’d like to thank all the people who worked hard on making this happen as well as all the partners involved in the process.
We’ve set up a mobile section with more details and we look forward to hearing your thoughts. We know that you’ve been eagerly awaiting this launch and we appreciate the patience – now go out and get that app!