Spotify Explained

This is the story of how Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon founded music streaming service Spotify in 2006 to provide universal access to music and combat piracy by getting users to pay for subscriptions. It covers Spotify's early challenges in convincing skeptical music labels to license song rights during years of technology and user experience refinements before the service caught on with mainstream listeners and transformed the recording industry by proving the streaming model's viability.