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Today sees the launch of the ShareMyPlaylists.com campaign to bring Spotify to our American cousins across the pond.
Of course you may well at this point be asking why do this? Well the reason is that every day we get emails from people in the USA asking if we have any Spotify invites for them. They’ve seen some of the great press that Spotify is getting and understandably want a piece of the action.
Newsweek and Wired have also written articles on why Spotify is awesome and should be brought to the USA.
Unfortunately Spotify isn’t available in the USA…yet. So I thought it would be good to set up a Facebook group so that we can get together a bunch of support to demonstrate the demand for Spotify to get a release in the USA.
I asked Spotify if they would comment on why they haven’t launched in the USA, and when they plan to. Here was their response:
“Our dream is to one day make Spotify available everywhere in the world and we’re working hard to make that dream a reality. We’ve been bowled over by the interest we’ve received from music fans across the pond and the day we launch in the US will be a very special one indeed. As soon as we have more information we’ll be sure to let you all know. Happy listening and good luck with the campaign!”
I’m a firm believer that Spotify is the future of music, so the more people and countries that embrace it, the more support we will get from the music industry. Which in turn will lead to a greater choice of artists and music available for us all…for free.
In honour of all things USA, enjoy these American themed Spotify playlists 
College Rock
Americana
Harley Davidson Music
Country and Americana
Failed Muso’s History Of New York
The Sarah Palin Playlist
Let’s make this happen guys, please lend your support to the cause and tell everybody you know to join the Bring Spotify to the USA – Facebook Group. Power to the people!!
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May 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
cybearDJM said:
Hoping it’ll come true, so that I can share my Playlists (http://www.sharemyplaylists.com/?s=kotonteej&x=0&y=0) with my friends over there…
Sincerely
DJM
May 13th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Afront said:
You should join forces with the other “Spotify in the States” Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72714679243
May 13th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
bigfatbball2 said:
Im sorry but we dont care if the usa dont have spotify yet they usually are the first ones to get everything else (hulu, etc) im not going to feel sorry for them. Expand in europe first; then start thinking about the usa but it’s way too early i think
it will eventually arrive in the USA but the networks in the us are prehistoric at&t,comcast,verizon are scared like hell cause they stopped investing in the network which cant support anything else than html
May 15th, 2009 at 11:03 pm