The Senior VP of Spotify, the popular online music streaming app in Europe, recently announced that Spotify has plans to come to the United States in Q3 2010. Last reports said that Spotify would launch stateside in late 2009, but that promise was broken quite sometime ago. Spotify has over seven million users all across Europe, with over 300,000 of them paying for the $15 premium service that features mobile support and no ads. Spotify’s move means is that anyone can listen to any song from any artist for free, on desktop or mobile phone – a sure way to upset any record label.
If you’re too impatient to wait for Spotify to come to the United States, you can use a clever method of applying for use with a UK proxy that TechCrunch pointed out last year:
Invite yourself from anywhere:
1) go to http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
2) enter the following URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
3) Create your account, for UK postcode – check http://www.postcodesearch.org.uk/
It’s also worth noting that Spotify has passed Apple’s App Store limbo and is available to EU countries that already support Spotify.
