Pink Floyd back catalogue available on Spotify

[Crusader]

Pink Floyd's back catalogue is being made available on Spotify after fans played their Wish You Were Here track more than 1m times in four days.

The song was released on Spotify last Friday, with Pink Floyd's official Twitter account promising that the rest of the catalogue would be unlocked once it passed 1m streams.

Pink Floyd is the latest major artist to join Spotify, as it tries to convince more music fans to pay up to £9.99 a month for its streaming service, rather than buy songs and albums as individual downloads from digital stores such as Apple's iTunes.

"It's a great day for fans of prog rock, but it's also a great day for younger fans who have yet to be really turned on to the magic of Pink Floyd," said Ken Parks, Spotify's chief content officer. "That's a lot of what this is about: bringing a new generation of fans to one of the biggest and most iconic bands in the world."

Spotify has more than 24 million active users, with 6 million of them paying for its service and the rest using its advertising-supported free option.

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Pretty excited about being able to listen to Pink Floyd on Spotify. I am however waiting for Rammstein to follow suit and allow their songs on there.

 

[Evil Eye]

A million views in four days? Impressive.
It's a nice song.