Spotify music app launched for mobiles and Apple iPhones

Spotify music streaming service will now be available on Apple iPhones and mobile phones that use Google’s Android mobile OS. The new app would allow the users of these handsets to access more than four million music tracks as well as create playlists, save songs and play them while offline.

Currently, Spotify cusotmers can get the music streaming service at no cost on their computers. However, the mobile customers will need to subscribe for Spotify music to access the music tracks.

Recently, Apple iPhone approved the Spotify’s new application and Apple iPhone cusotmers will need to take a premium Spotify subscription which costs £10 to use the new service.

Launched a year ago, Spotify now has two million users in the UK, and more than six million in Europe. Very few (one in fifty users) pay subscribption while most users are on its free streaming services.

Spotify’s new mobile ventures are expected to boost its revenues and the music streaming firm also plans to launch its service in the US by this year end.

UK music industry claims that nearly seven million internet users download music illegally or share copy righted music stuff free of cost. Most internet users (nearly 90%) would rather pay for buying music (CDs) than subscribing to streaming service like Spotify, according to the survey conducted by University of Hertfordshire for UK Music last month.