{"id":240056,"date":"2025-09-15T20:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=240056"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:44:21","slug":"why-is-spotify-giving-free-users-a-better-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/why-is-spotify-giving-free-users-a-better-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Spotify giving free users a better deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSpotify just announced that it's giving more away to its free users<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The platform confirmed earlier today (September 15) that its ad-supported users can now search for songs \u2013 and manually play tracks from playlists and albums for the first time on mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":240062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-240056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-interviews","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240056"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240118,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240056\/revisions\/240118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}