Spotify Now Offers Three-Month Free Trial For Premium Users

The music platform competes with Gaana, JioSaavn and Amazon Music in the Indian market.

Spotify is available on mobile and desktop as well.

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Good news coming in for music enthusiasts signing up for Spotify. Users signing up for the music-streaming service’s Premium account will now get a three-month free trial of the service, before having to pay for it.

According to the music streaming giant, the 'first three months for free' offer is not time bound and globally, any user registering for the Premium plan will be eligible for this trial.

The Spotify Premium trial service, earlier available for only one month (30 days), lets users skip any track, listen offline, hear high-quality music and use the app on their mobile device as a computer remote control.

This is probably Spotify’s way of saying that users need more time to acclimatise and get used to the experience of its platform. Offering another two months of free usage could help the service add more paid users, especially from markets like India, where it launched earlier this year.

We know it takes time to fully experience all the features available with Premium, so we’re giving people the time that they need to fall in love with Premium’s seamless listening experience and on-demand access to more than 50 million tracks, billions of playlists and 450,000 podcast titles for free.

Alex Norstrom, Chief – Premium Business, Spotify

The company announced recently that it has hit 232 million monthly active users globally, which is a 29 percent increase year-on-year (YoY), along with 108 million premium subscribers which is a 31 percent (YoY) growth.

A few months back, Spotify revealed that over 2 million users had joined them from India, without telling how many paid for its service.