{"id":58534,"date":"2014-09-30T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=58534"},"modified":"2014-09-30T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:09:48","slug":"spotify-launches-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/spotify-launches-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Launches in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3899\/15216713237_2d577b520c_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" \/>Spotify has launched in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>After a small beta, the music streaming company has launched with 20 million songs and Canadian content.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify boasts 40 million active users worldwide. It joins Songza and Rdio as Canadians&#8217; limited list of music streaming options slowly expands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Spotify launches in a specific country we always make sure that the experience is curated for local tastes and culture,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;Spotify in Canada is &#8230; much more than just the Canadian version of Spotify in the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Users have created 1.5 billion playlists on Spotify so far. The company has paid out $1 billion to rightsholders since it launched.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/spotify-plans-canadian-launch-this-year-2012-08-22\" target=\"_blank\">originally planned to launch here in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has launched in Canada. After a small beta, the music streaming company has launched with 20 million songs and Canadian content. Spotify boasts 40 million active users worldwide. It joins Songza and Rdio as Canadians&#8217; limited list of music streaming options slowly expands. &#8220;When Spotify launches in a specific country we always make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":58536,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-58534","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/58534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/58534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/58536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=58534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=58534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=58534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}