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Digital
Pink Floyd catalogue goes live on Spotify, including for freemium users
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 18 June 2013
Pink Floyd’s whole back catalogue has gone live on Spotify – for both freemium and premium users – following a promotion between the band and the streaming service, whereby users were told access to the group’s full archive would only be made available once their 1975 track ‘Wish You Were Here’ had been streaming a million times on the platform. It took less than four days to reach that number.
Although Pink Floyd have been hesitant on all things digital – with concerns about both royalty rates and the splitting up of albums in the digital domain – they aren’t complete hold-outs. Music by the band has been available via subscription-based streaming platforms for a while, though their management previously expressed reservations about ad-funded freemium platforms, and it’s the fact their catalogue will be available across all of Spotify that is most interesting here.
