Spotify Open its music service to American

Spotify founders Martin Lorentzon, left, and Daniel Ek have fought for years to bring their music service to the U.S.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Spotify plans to launch in the U.S. on Thursday
The music-streaming service has been wildly popular in Europe
It's taken awhile for Spotify Dell Vostro 1500 battery to debut in U.S. because of concerns from record labels

The hottest music venue in Europe is set sony cyber-shot dsc-tx1 battery charger to open its doors to a select group in the United States.

Spotify, which dell inspiron 11z battery makes Internet music-streaming software, plans to launch the much-hyped U.S. version Thursday morning, after delays and years of negotiation.

At first, Spotify will only accept new members to its free Motorola pmnn4046 Battery service who receive invitations from the company, one of its sponsors or a current user.

"This is the biggest market in the world," Kenneth Parks, Spotify's content chief, said in an interview late HP Compaq Business Notebook NX6110 ac adapter Wednesday. "We haven't done a launch this large."

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The Spotify Dell XPS M1210 ac adapter computer program will let people choose from any of 15 million songs to hear for free -- up to 20 hours per month, with each track listenable up to five times. For the first six months, however, people who enter during the invitation period are exempt from the monthly limit, Parks said.

After that, users can lift the restrictions by paying $5 a month or buying songs individually, like iTunes. The smartphone apps can be accessed for $10 a month, which includes unlimited streaming and the ability to save copy-protected music for listening offline.

The ability to create and share playlists with Facebook friends has formed a beehive mix-tape culture among hp nx7400 battery the more than 10 million users in Europe.

From a small office in Stockholm, HP NX6110 battery Sweden, Spotify quickly spread its tentacles across Europe. But during the past couple of years, the company has been caught in a web of bureaucracy. Record-label executives have expressed concern that Spotify's free offering devalues CANON POWERSHOT S40 battery music and doesn't drum up significant revenue.

"They wanted to be careful," Parks said. "Spotify has always had a view that the free experience was core to what Spotify was all about and key to get users to invest in the service."

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek echoed that belief at a technology conference in December, as he has in several public appearances before that and likely will again at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference next week.

"We really believe CASIO Exilim EX-S100 charger in our model," Ek said at the D: Dive into Mobile conference last year. "We would not just launch a subscription model, because we don't think that's going to work."

Now, the four major labels and SONY NP-FP50 battery Spotify have finally settled their disputes. In the time since, the record companies have given the go-ahead to competing digital music initiatives such as Rdio, MOG and, most recently, Apple's iTunes Match.

"We think there's Nikon EN-EL5 charger definitely room and appetite for a service like Spotify," Parks said. "There really is nothing like it in the market."