As a big fan who pays a monthly fee to Spotify, I’m really pleased that they now have over a million subscribers. Given that that suggests a monthly revenue of £10m plus whatever they make from advertising, though, I do hope that there’s a plan to revise the rates that they actually pay artists in the near future.
I’d also like to see Spotify develop better tools for discovering and promoting new music. The ‘What’s new’ list always seems to throw up the same Miles Davis albums for me, while ‘Top lists’ is still utterly incomprehensible to my eyes, despite the fact I’ve been using Spotify since it launched.