Shazam, Spotify Team Up
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Music tagging service Shazam is getting a powerful new ally–the popular European music service Spotify. Says Spotify head, Daniel Ek of the deal, “Now if you hear a great new track you can identify it, listen to it instantly in its entirety and easily add it to your music collection. That’s pretty powerful stuff.”
Spotify will be added to the list of services that users can purchase identified music from, alongside bigger stores like Amazon and iTunes.
Spotify was founded in Sweden in 2006. Unlike Shazam, which has made major waves in the US, courtesy of its iPhone app, the service has yet to break into this country, a market still almost entirely dominated by Apple’s music service. The service has become popular quite quickly in its native continent, however.
No word on whether this European deal will help speed up the service’s arrival in the States.
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