BTW artists are getting money from Spotify and PRS through advertising, Spotify direct adverts towards certain types of people, eg if you listen to Hip Hop & Rap, you get advertisements for guns, lol, well not quite but you get the picture. Its’ a sophisticated advertising network that is able to charge a premium for its advertising space as it is so well targeted.

Which is probably why we cant get it free here, the business’s advertising are UK based and Spotify are trying to build up their customer base in the UK so they can charge even more for the advertising and add more music and attract more people.

Its a brilliant advertising platform, it gives people free music, advertisers the chance to reach certain people who don’t read newspapers etc, music artists get royalties and Spotify take a nice cut of the ad money.

http://Ireland-Advertising.com have more on the possibility of getting Spotify in Ireland if you want to get in contact with them. I asked when we can get it for free, but they said there were no plans to do that here yet, must be because there is so few of us here.

Btw, I’m an Irish user.

Godspeed!