Spotify Adds 2.5 Million Paying Customers

Leading streaming music service Spotify said it had more than 15 million paying subscribers out of a total of 60 million active users at the end of 2014.  In early November, Spotify said it had more than 50 million active users of whom 12.5 million were subscribers each paying 120 US dollars per year.  Spotify said then that it had paid out more than 2 billion dollars in royalties to the music industry. source: Spotify blog post