Spotify

Spotify has over 100 million songs. How do you ever find the one song that’s perfect for you? Spotify came up with a clever answer. A Small Problem in a Sea of Songs Imagine walking into a gigantic library with 100 million books. Wow, it has everything! But… where do you even start reading? That’s the exact problem Spotify users face every day. The number of songs on Spotify is ridiculous — even the world’s biggest music fan couldn’t listen to them all in a lifetime. ...

Before Spotify, getting a song wasn’t easy. A teenager in Sweden decided to turn all the music in the world into a library that fits in your pocket. Life Before Streaming Imagine you really love a song. But you can’t just tap a screen and listen. You have to go to a store and buy a physical object that has your song on it. That object might be a big round vinyl record. You have to put it on a spinning machine, and a tiny needle touches it gently to make sound come out. ...