What’s going on with Spotify?
Posted in free stuff, music on February 17th, 2010 by RevStuI’ve been a little disappointed with the (lack of) reaction to ‘99‘ so far. Big Songs For Little Attention Spans swept the web a few years back, being linked all over the place and generating terabytes of downloads, and I’d hoped the easier accessibility and collaborative nature of Spotify – where you can just click a link to play all the songs legally, rather than having to download 100MB of illegal MP3s – would make ’99′ even more popular, as well as uncovering a whole bunch of new uber-short songs I’d never heard of.
But at the time of writing it hasn’t managed so much as a single retweet, and it seems doubtful that everyone in the world would have spontaneously become bored of the idea of punchy short songs tied into a theme (one small thread on The Word’s forum generated over 50 additions to the “b-side” playlist), so I started to wonder if making the compilation with Spotify – now almost exactly a year old – might have been more of a curse than a blessing.
