<story><title>The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/metrics-behind-spotifys-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ibdf</author><text>The article compares Amazon Prime music with Spotify... I&amp;#x27;m a prime member and enjoy many of the advantages it comes with, but Prime Music is not one of them. It&amp;#x27;s horrible! A few months ago I thought I would give it a try and only use Prime Music because... why pay for two services? After about one month of use, I went back to spotify. The prime player UI is no good, the music selection is horrible, the music recommendation service never recommended anything new. Finding new music is hard, finding less known bands is very hard.&lt;p&gt;I pay for the Spotify family plan and it has been a great experience.&lt;p&gt;I will continue to use prime for shipping, storage, and shows. But for music, so far, Spotify is the only service that checks all the marks.</text></comment>
<story><title>The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/metrics-behind-spotifys-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runeb</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why Spotify hasn&amp;#x27;t gone the Netflix way and started their own label to produce and release the music themselves. Their margins are severely cut by licensing and since the labels hold the rights to the content they might be convinced to sign better deals with competitors who have other revenue streams to subsidize a music venture that isn&amp;#x27;t making money.</text></comment>