Korean's using Spotify won't be able to listen to a lot of KPOP group and soloist

    Quote from omnimorphism

    An antitrust lawsuit would take months or even years.

    but even the threat of it or the publicity would gain spotify more listeners maybe.


    You need even need a lawsuit maybe just the treat of one or the business reputation issue it could lead to.

    A lawsuit is just another business tactic

    Quote from Tic_tac_toe

    Those are secondary services that add to user experience.

    Not original content. You’ll see Spotify will make no moves in Korea.

    I have to disagree, but I'm patient and eventually I will find out if I'm right or wrong.


    It's only been a day and it already has a lot of these 'secondary services' and a large international library, similar price and even many Korean acts(including JYPE artst) so who knows what the future hold, personally I think it will be competitive over the next 2 years and take over within 5.

    Quote from selfmate

    exactly which means that melon/kakao is using their market power to prevent their artists on a rival streaming platform...

    but I don't know enough of Korean laws to comment further...


    Hey where are my Korean lawyers at???? :)

    Well it would be funny to see and under the table dirty fight...I wonder would attitudes from Kakao suddenly change if Spotify start playing dirty and all of a sudden those same artist are removed from Spotify completely? That wouldn't even be a slight blow to Spotify overall, but a nail in the coffin of the careers of certain acts within the international market.

    Quote from omnimorphism

    Why would someone use a service that is more expensive and doesn't have all artists? There's not even a freemium subscription in Korean.

    The catalog that Spotify provides is waaay bigger than Melon’s. Also there are tons of global playlists showing what’s trending at the moment, podcasts, etc.

    Quote from Valenttinna

    Do people really ask why would you use an international platform instead of melon?

    Im not familiar with melon but can you make your own playlist or listen to the ones made by other people?

    I agree, over the last 3-4 years I've been on-off looking for the best service and have tried so so many Deezer, Apple, YT music, Google Play music, Tidal and even Qobuz...


    And beyond Qobuz/Tidal masters taking a fat shit on Spotify's music quality I find myself currently at home on Spotify for a while now. The creature comforts and app is just too strong for me and couple with it's competitive price and huge library I found the only true competitor in my search to be Apple Music.

    Quote from theVillain

    Well it would be funny to see and under the table dirty fight...I wonder would attitudes from Kakao suddenly change if Spotify start playing dirty and all of a sudden those same artist are removed from Spotify completely? That wouldn't even be a slight blow to Spotify overall, but a nail in the coffin of the careers of certain acts within the international market.

    I"m sure there's a lot of that going on even with western artists for every Taylor Swift out there to criticize the streaming platforms there must be thousands of smaller indie artists complaining to no avail.


    Also Behind the scenes fights as well


    but Spotify is so much bigger and can capture a lot of the market if they play the long game - they have the resources for that

    In the long run I can't see how KakaoM and korean artist can stay out of Spotify and other international music applications. Because the public want to have the possiblity to use the musice service they want and not be forced to use a domestic service. And who wants to be forced to jump between to applications to listen to domestic music and international music?

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