Spotify is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 422 million monthly active users, including 182 million paying subscribers, as of March 2022.
You can use Spotify for free, but its features are limited. On the free plan, music can be played in shuffle mode and you can skip up to six times per hour, every hour. Spotify Radio isn't available, but you can access Daily Mix playlists.
Both Free and Premium users have access to all of Spotify's music and podcast content, and both have nearly the same Discovery features available. The difference is that Premium users may get early access to new music releases or exclusive content, whereas Free users will have to wait a couple of weeks.
