Which Music Service Has The Largest Library

Spotify at present has more than paid-for subscribers than any other music streaming service in the world – a fantastic achievement! But what about the catalog? Who's near likely to have that forgotten B-side yous suddenly accept an clue to hear? Whose annal is more likely to have that obscure indie band you lot always wanted to listen to once again?Who has the most number of tracks to stream? Read on for a comparison of the music catalog sizes for the x acme music streaming services!

Spotify is the winner hither: Spotify has a larger catalog than any other music streaming service in the world! They ever said that their goal was to be able to stream "all the world's music" and it looks similar they're the most-likely service to accomplish this. Note though thatGracenote lists over 97 one thousand thousand songs in their database, so Spotify and the balance accept only just started…

NOTES

We did not include music jukeboxes (Last.fm,Pandora, We7, Slacker Radio etc.) since these are not on-demand services: unlike the streaming apps listed above, yous can't decide which songs to listen to. Incidentally though, Pandora has only 800,000 tracks as at March 2011.
Nosotros as well did not include Grooveshark (suspect legality and no way to make up one's mind itemize size since users upload their ain tracks), YouTube and of course iTunes equally it offers purchase downloads only (here'southward a post on Spotify vs. iCloud).
Catalog sizes quoted hither were determined from the service'due south own websites, wikipedia, and news reports from reputable sources. Spotify track count obtained from their Metadata API (the start number returned is the global total number of tracks).

UPDATE

Kyle Bylin syndicated this article on hypebot. Cheque it out equally there are some interesting comments!

Chart last updated July 17, 2011.