iTunes vs. Spotify
Today I ran across an article regarding the new music
streaming service, Spotify. The article
was discussing the assumption that Spotify will overtake iTunes within two
years. If you were to ask me to describe/explain Spotify, I would say that it
is a mix between iTunes, Naptser, and Pandora. Now, I am not sure if I agree
with the prediction that Spotify will overtake iTunes, however, I would not
doubt if it came close. I had to look at this from a personal standpoint first.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that I hardly ever open my iTunes
anymore; I am always using Spotify. What drew me to this new application was
the Pandora-type feature. I do feel that Spotify can easily overtake Pandora
within the next two years. At the same time, there are some individuals who
genuinely love the idea that they can search an artist name and create a
station of all similarities. I on the other hand love the fact that I can use
Spotify to search an artist name and
pull up all of their music.
Because my entertainment industry of interest is artist
management, I believe that this new application will cause a bit of up rise
within music artists, if it hasn’t already done so. After downloading Spotify,
I learned that one is able to search an artists’ name, create a playlist of all
the music they like from that artist, then have it available to them, ready to
play at any time. This came as a shock to me, simply because of all the artists
that I searched, the returned results were all updated. For example, the same
day Robert Glasper’s new album “Black Radio” was released, it was available on
Spotify. I believe that this can cause artist to lose out on money from CD
sales. While I did not find an option to burn music to CD, subscribers to have
the option to access the mobile apps and have their same playlists with them
wherever they go.
