Premium has been $9.99 per month in the US since it launched.
    • LetMeEatCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Interesting. That’s dated October of 2009 and says Spotify had 5m users. Looks like they have ~200m users today. At a linear scaling it’d be twenty times larger, or £120m=$154m per month. That’s $1.85b/year.

      In reality it wouldn’t scale linearly, but it also accounts for zero salaries, which was the major component of my comment.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Look I appreciate the downvotes and all, but didn’t you just say that fixed costs don’t go up and down with users?

        • LetMeEatCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          (1) I didn’t downvote you.
          (2) I said something similar but critically different:

          Building a streaming platform that expects to have multiple billions of dollars in revenue across hundreds of millions of users is going to have enormous fixed costs that cannot be trivially scaled down if user counts are lower. If they plan around a much lower user count they can scale it down at that planning phase, but not after the fact (at least not easily).

          The intended size of the platform dictates the fixed costs.

          And…
          (3) The data you provided wasn’t fixed costs. It was variable costs like server time, music rights, and bandwidth.