{"id":7056,"date":"2011-11-12T23:42:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T07:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T07:42:42","slug":"the-spotify-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/11\/12\/the-spotify-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spotify Effect."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for a free <a title=\"Spotify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spotify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> account before it required Facebook login. I found out that I had been postponing music purchases if I could listen to them on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>How would Spotify help the artists?<\/p>\n<p>Well, when my free Spotify account is 6-month-old, I would have to abide by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotify.com\/us\/blog\/archives\/2011\/09\/26\/spmarket-1great-news-for-all-us-users-%E2%80%93-no-more-invitesspmarket\/\" target=\"_blank\">limitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After 6 months, you\u2019ll be limited to 10 hours of streaming a month and a 5-play limit for any individual track. Unless, of course, you\u2019ve subscribed by then!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Spotify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spotify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spotify icon\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Spotify-icon.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005LRWRZ8\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Megadeth &#8211; Th1rt3en<\/a> but I couldn&#8217;t find it at local store. Since I found out the album is available on Spotify, I have postponed the purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for a free Spotify account before it required Facebook login. I found out that I had been postponing music purchases if I could listen to them on Spotify. How would Spotify help the artists? Well, when my free Spotify account is 6-month-old, I would have to abide by the limitation. After 6 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/11\/12\/the-spotify-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spotify Effect.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1030,942,2788,936],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-spotify","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1PO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}