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"Music streaming service Spotify has shared that it now has over 5 million paying customers globally, from a pool of 20 million total active users. The United States now sports 1 million \u00A0paying users, showing that the social music service has found significant traction in the country.\r\n\r\nSpotify users have created more than 1 billion playlists.\u00A0Humourously enough, more than 4 million of its playlists are named &amp;quot;Love.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nSpotify also shared that it has now paid out more than $500 millionto rights holders. Spotify stated that 80% of its total catalog has been streamed, and that users don't just love singles, but prefer to listen to entire albums. Daniel Glass of Glassnote Entertainment briefly came on stage to praise Spotify's ability to boost sales and generate streaming revenue.\r\n\r\nToday's news follows Spotify's beta launch of its\u00A0browser-based music app, which is currently only available to a \u201Csmall number of users.\u201D Spotify confirmed its Web player with TNW, explaining that it's &amp;quot;potentially...a great\u00A0additional feature for times you can\u2019t play music through the desktop app, like at work or at a friend\u2019s house.&amp;quot; More details on the Web player will surface next year.\r\n\r\nIn addition,\u00A0Spotify\u2019s $3 billion funding round\u00A0closed last month, and the company counts\u00A0Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and Coca-Cola\u00A0as investors. Spotify also recently revealed a list of\u00A0its most streamed songs of 2012, which included Gotye\u2019s\u00A0Somebody That I Used To Know\u00A0and\u00A0Carly Rae Jepsen\u2019s\u00A0Call Me Maybe.\r\n\r\nImage via\u00A0khrawlings\u00A0/ Flickr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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