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Report: Spotify Has 250,000 Paid U.S. Listeners

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Spotify reportedly has added 250,000 paid subscribers in the U.S. since it launched in July, Reuters said Thursday.

In total, Spotify has two million paid subscribers and 10 million total users, a rep confirmed to PCMag last month. At the beginning of August Spotify reportedly had added 175,000 paid subscribers and 1.4 million users.

The music service seems to have benefitted from its connection with Facebook, announced last month at Facebook’s f8 developer conference. It’s rumored that Spotify was gaining about 250,000 new users every day for about a week after the conference, but the company would not confirm this estimate. The connection allegedly boosted Spotify’s numbers from one million monthly active users to a record high of 4.4 million.  

Spotify’s aggressive growth seems to be continuing. According to AppData, which tracks Facebook apps, Spotify has accrued more than 633,000 users this week and nearly 197,000 listeners in the past 24 hours. AppData says Spotify currently has 7 million monthly average users.

A rep for Spotify would not confirm the most recent numbers.

Spotify is not the only music service that lets you listen on Facebook, but it is the most popular. Services like Rdio and MOG have a much smaller presence on the social site.

Spotify offers a free, ad-supported service and two paid versions. Spotify Premium costs $4.99 a month and gets you all of the content you get on the free version, just without ads. For $9.99 a month, Spotify Unlimited lets you listen to all of the music in Spotify’s library, access songs offline, and stream tracks on Spotify’s iPhone and Android apps.

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Leslie Horn joined the PCMag team as a news reporter in the fall of 2010. She covered a wide range of topics, from digital media to the latest Apple rumor. After graduating with a degree in Magazine Journalism from the University of Missouri, she wrote for Out & About, a travel guide in coastal Maine. One of her favorite reporting experiences was covering the 2008 Olympics from Beijing. She travels every chance she gets; a favorite trip was backpacking along the coast of Brazil. Though she was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Leslie embraces life as a New Yorker.

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