
(a company owned by Jay-Z) acquired Tidal in January 2015. Both Spotify vs Tidal streaming services were merged under the Tidal brand, which debuted in the UK and US in 2014. TidalĪspiro, a Norwegian and Swedish tech company that also owns WiMP, developed Tidal. Spotify is also available in 178 other countries. Spotify currently has 345 million active monthly users and 158 million subscribers. This unassuming startup is today the largest streaming service in the world. It reached its first million subscribers three years later. Spotify was launched in select European countries in October 2008. Spotify was created to end music industry piracy and offer a legal (and convenient) way to access music listening. In 2006, two Swedish entrepreneurs, Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek, developed Spotify.
