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Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Spotify also has a web player (open.spotify.com). [237] Offline Music listening is possible on watchOS [238] and more recently added to Google's WearOS [239] for those with premium subscriptions. Unlike the apps, the web player does not have the ability to download music for offline listening.
Google Play Music Music locker, store, and streaming service debuted in May 2011, and shut down October 2020. Google has replaced Play Music with YouTube Music. [32] Groove Music by Microsoft debuted in 2015, linking Microsoft's Groove music player to OneDrive cloud storage. It allowed storing up to 5 GB of music in AAC, MP3 and WMA formats.
Succeeded by Beats Music and subsequently Apple Music [87] [99] 21 January 2015: Songza: Merged into Google Play Music [100] and subsequently into YouTube Music: 21 October 2014: Ubuntu One Music: Discontinued [101] 2 April 2014: Zune Pass: Succeeded by Xbox Music Pass and subsequently by Groove Music Pass [102] 15 October 2012: Mflow ...
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 882 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 138 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
The Car Thing was a music streaming device developed by Spotify and produced from 2021 to 2022. The Car Thing was designed to be used in vehicles to stream music from Spotify's platform with its touchscreen and voice controls. It made an initial limited launch in April 2021 and was launched to the public in February 2022.
For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback. Multi-media players designed for video playback, which can also play music, are included under comparison of video player software.