{"id":6012,"date":"2012-01-08T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2012-01-08T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:51:29","slug":"can-spotify-in-the-us-convert-enough-users-to-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/can-spotify-in-the-us-convert-enough-users-to-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Spotify in the US convert enough users to subscribers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Spotify couldn&#8217;t get into the US market because the major labels in the US didn&#8217;t think they could convert enough of the free users to premium members?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crunch time, as the six month &#8220;unlimited streaming&#8221; period comes to an end and Spotify fans in the US will be asked for $5 a month. How many of the subscriber base will move to the &#8220;income&#8221; column&#8230; and will it be enough to cover the minimums that the major\u00a0labels\u00a0have likely asked for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Spotify couldn&#8217;t get into the US market because the major labels in the US didn&#8217;t think they could convert enough of the free users to premium members? It&#8217;s crunch time, as the six month &#8220;unlimited streaming&#8221; period comes to an end and Spotify fans in the US will be asked for $5 a month. How many of the subscriber base will move to the &#8220;income&#8221; column&#8230; and will it be enough to cover the minimums that the major\u00a0labels\u00a0have likely asked for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[1772,808,3491,515],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-music","category-link-log","tag-premium","tag-spotify","tag-subscribers","tag-us","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1yY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}