{"id":6235,"date":"2016-10-14T04:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/10\/14\/spotify-goes-japan\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:56:55","slug":"spotify-goes-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/10\/14\/spotify-goes-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Goes Japan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/eb\/Spotify_HQ.jpg\/220px-Spotify_HQ.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"215\" height=\"144\" \/><br \/>Spotify has launched on an invite-only basis in  Japan, on mobile, tablet, desktop and PlayStation consoles. We&#8217;re the  first  &#8220;freemium&#8221; music service to give Japanese music lovers access to  music from their favorite domestic and international artists.  <!--more-->  <br \/> &#8220;We&#8217;re incredibly excited to launch Spotify with a uniquely Japanese  music experience,&#8221; says Spotify&#8217;s CEO and Founder, Daniel Ek. &#8220;With  Spotify&#8217;s revolutionary discovery and personalization features that fit  your every mood, we aim to help people enjoy more music and connect more  artists with fans than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Spotify is the first music streaming service in Japan to offer both a  free-to-the-user ad-supported music service and a fully featured ad-free  subscription service. Users can listen for free, or alternatively  upgrade to Spotify Premium for only 980 yen a month.<\/p>\n<p> To lead the Japan team, Ichiro Tamaki, formerly Vice President of Amazon  Devices and Kindle Content, Japan will join as Spotify&#8217;s General  Manager, Japan. Ichiro will be based in Tokyo and lead the day-to-day  running of Spotify Japan, effective as of October 1st.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: Spotify<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has launched on an invite-only basis in Japan, on mobile, tablet, desktop and PlayStation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}