Spotify Frees Free Users — Now You Can Shamelessly Pick Songs

Spotify, the company boasting 696 million monthly active users worldwide—including a staggering 60% free users—decided in September 2025 to play nice and finally let freeloaders pick specific songs instead of suffering playlist roulette. Starting Monday, these non-paying humans can play what they want, when they want, until that unpublished 'on-demand time' runs out—because Spotify spoke to TechCrunch yesterday but left out that crucial detail. Meanwhile, the company laughs all the way to the bank with 4.95 billion dollars in quarterly revenue, a 108% stock surge in a year, and 12% subscriber growth in July alone. All this, just ahead of their chicken-festive holiday ad bonanza, so get ready for more ads than actual music.

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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/16/2025 | Author: Aditi Bharade