A Year Of Spotify

Swedish music service Spotify celebrated its first year in Australia May 22 by releasing local consumer figures.

It declined to disclose how many Australian subscribers it had. But Australians listened to 42.5 million hours of music.

More than 14 million playlists were created over the last 12 months.

Of these, 230,000 were created for travel and holidays, almost 150,000 for exercising, 240,000 about love, 55,000 related to weddings and 65,000 for work.