Rumor: Spotify has 70,000 paid US users one week after launch (Digital Trends)

Spotify launched in the United States a week ago, by invitation, and has received a lot of coverage recently, including some rave reviews. The music streaming service may be used freely with the ads, but also offers two subscription options paid, starting at $ 4.99. Despite the obstacles to access in time for Spotify is available in the U.S., Billboard now claims that 70,000 users have subscribed to a paid subscription.

The main attractions of having a paid subscription is the removal of ads between songs, the word game, and the ability to listen to the service on your mobile device.

It is difficult to assess the success of the launch of Spotify is experienced, as all his nearest competitors in the market for years. For example, Rhapsody, approximately 800,000 paying subscribers, but it launched in 2001. Napster was reported to have 761,000 subscribers before it was bought by Best Buy 2008th Fellow newcomer RDIO is reportedly less than 100,000 paying subscribers, so Spotify has a good job of playing catch in the same week.

In a recent comparison made ​​by Digital Trends, we found the most well rounded Spotify service from Pandora, Spotify and Grooveshark. Even with a bug, could Grooveshark Spotify pass just in our comparison, winning three of the six categories.The fault was with the users lose their "favorite" songs, which is annoying, but do not break a game bug. The whole product is still very strong, and it is easy to see why the service has become so popular so quickly.