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"Spotify has launched its service in four new markets -- Taiwan, Argentina, Greece and Turkey -- which take the music streaming site to 32 markets worldwide.\r\nSpotify here! Hello and welcome Taiwan, Turkey, Greece and Argentina to the family!\r\n\r\n\u2014 Martin Lorentzon (@MartinLorentzon) September 23, 2013\r\nToday's launches see Spotify make further headway in Asia,\u00A0which it first entered in April of this year\u00A0when it arrived in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. It also continues its focus on Latin America -- which it also entered in April, via a launch in Mexico -- while Turkey is established as a sizable Internet market, as Twitter and Facebook can testify.\r\n\r\nSpotify will take\u00A0KKBox\u00A0in Taiwan, which has 10 million local users, while its nearest rival in the other three markets is France-headquartered Deezer.\r\n\r\nThere are 24 million active Spotify users and over 6 million paying subscribers globally -- as of March 2013.\u00A0Deezer has\u00A04 million paying users, as of May, but its 25 million-track library is 5 million songs larger while it is available in 182 countries.\r\n\r\nSpotify offers its users\u00A0three options:\u00A0The basic desktop streaming service is free with ads; the paid-for Unlimited tier offers ad-free playback on desktops; while the Premium version is ad-free on mobile and desktop, and includes offline playback.\r\n\r\nDesktop streaming is free in Taiwan, where the Premium service is priced at\u00A0TW$149 -- around $10, or half of the cost in the US.\r\n\r\nThe chart below shows all countries where the Spotify is live, and its supported languages.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe music industry has been shaken up in recent months after Apple launched its iRadio service for iTunes, and Google continued the rollout of its Google Play Music service.\r\n\r\nRdio is set to launch a new free streaming service in the US, while Internet radio service Pandora saw its stock price rise to a record high\u00A0after the iRadio launch, only to\u00A0plummet\u00A0after Apple announced its new service had 9 million members within days of going live to the public.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_wrOVrPxw\r\n\r\nThanks @jameshilltaiwan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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