I’ve been hearing for months about this music service in Europe called Spotify and how it’s simply amazing.  They say it will be the death of the MP3.  They say it will rival iTunes.  They’ve said that about alot of stuff and none of it came true.

However, I just saw the demo video of the Spotify iPhone app and I have to say I’m pretty impressed.  I can see how this will make buying songs obsolete.  Why would you store songs on your iPhone when you could just stream them, anywhere, anytime, nearly instantly?  Plus, you’re not limited to the songs you own, you get all six million+ songs in their catalog.  That doesn’t even mention the fact that you can sync it with your iPhone to play them when you’re not connected to the Internet.  I know Elliot Van Buskirk at Wired really likes it.  Am I a new believer?  Yep, call me converted!

Recent news says that Spotify is coming to the US, but I’m sure our greedy labels and the RIAA will find a way to screw it up and/or make it ridiculously expensive.  Let’s also hope that Apple doesn’t get a case of the stupids and reject the app.

Check out this video.  You’ll be blown away. I’m thinking this is exactly what The Future of Music described. This IS the future of music.  If you’re an artist, you gotta find a way to get your stuff onto Spotify!