{"id":1623,"date":"2013-02-12T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-12-20T22:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:59:37","slug":"spotify-expands-poland-portugal-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/spotify-expands-poland-portugal-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify expands into Poland, Portugal and Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has expanded into three European markets for the first time &#8211; Italy, Poland and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The move means Spotify is now in 20 markets: USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Luxembourg, Italy, Poland and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify has racked up 5 million paying subscribers across the globe, while rival sudio streaming service Deezer has  3 million at last count. Spotify has 20 million active users in total.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in Sweden in 2008, Spotify says it has handed over more than half a billion US dollars to rightsholders, and aims to drive another half a billion US dollars to rightsholders during 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service now in 20 territories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,108,110],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-digital","tag-spotify","tag-streaming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}