Spotify has announced today that it will add applications to its music streaming service. This is a beginning for Spotify to become a platform for everything around music.
Today’s launch consists of 12 applications from third party partners.
Apps such as Tunewiki app that allows people to sing along while listening to a song by synchronizing song with lyrics or Songkick app which searches at user’s music libraries and suggests local events and concerts that might match the user’s music taste.
The apps are results of Spotify partnerships with 13 partners and to mention a couple:
Rolling stone magazine has developed an app for Spotify platform. The app creates new playlists of new music everyday and has articles and reviews about music.
Billboard apps creates playlists of Billboard’s Hot 100 charts.
For now apps are free for all Spotify subscribers.
It looks like following to partnership with Facebook, Spotify wants to follow Facebook path on opening its service to third party developers.
Today Spotify has 10 million active users and 2.5 million paying customers. It has 15 million records available and adding 20,000 records to it music library everyday.
The company funded $100 million in Jun 2011 and the company was valued $1 billion. The company had $99 million revenue in 2010.
