Spotify launches in Australia

Spotify, came to Australia this week. The Swedish digital music streaming service was launched in October 2008, and has clocked up a colossal 10 million users in less than 4 years. With three different levels of service Spotify offers capability of creating playlists, share music, browse artists, biographies and similar music, from a repository of millions of tracks. Spotify is available for your PC, Mac, home audio system and mobile phone.

Is this the way we will listen to music this decade?

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