Welcome To Belgium, Spotify. (And To Austria And Switzerland)

Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
spotify

Confirming rumors that started circulating earlier this week, music streaming phenomenon Spotify has finally made its way to my home country of Belgium, and is also launching today in Switzerland after debuting in Austria yesterday.

That means Spotify is now available in 12 countries, 11 in Europe and the United States.

Not much else to report for now. If you’re in Austria, Switzerland or Belgium, check out Spotify’s pricing plans (ranging from absolutely free to €9.99 per month) and enjoy.


Company: Spotify
Website: spotify.com
Launch Date: 2006
Funding: $183M

Spotify has created a lightweight software application that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums with virtually no buffering delay. It was launched in the fall of 2008 and had approximately 10 million users by September 2010. Spotify offers streaming music from major and independent record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Users download Spotify and then log onto their service enabling the on-demand streaming of music. Music can be browsed by artist, album, record...

→ Learn more
Tags: