Report shows promising signs, but only in the Netherlands…

…According to a Spotify spokesperson, the company doesn’t break down user numbers by individual country, but has 6 million paying subscribers and 24 million users worldwide…

…The report follows news that music sales increased greatly in Sweden, Spotify’s home country, corresponding with the service’s growing popularity there. Which is great news across the pond, but which doesn’t necessarily scale to America’s humungous market. The Netherlands is a country of under 17 million people with 6.8 million residential broadband connections versus the United State’s 313 million population and 82.4 million broadband users…

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