You might think this if you listen to mostly pop music, but I remember the day of having to find pirated uploads on YouTube or pirate the music myself just to l

You might think this if you listen to mostly pop music, but I remember the day of having to find pirated uploads on YouTube or pirate the music myself just to listen to music that wasn't from a major label. There was grooveshark but that was pirated music. Spotify was the first streaming service to let you listen to any type of music from any place in the world. The only place to do that before them was YouTube but this was before you could listen to YouTube videos in audio format. Spotify has best in class discoverability with generative playlists and recommendations for any type of music. You can find Spotify generative playlist for the most niche music genres. I uploaded a single electronic music track on Spotify 10 years ago without using a label or advertising it other than to a few friends on FB and it has 100k plays. The same song on YouTube has a few 100 plays. Again if you just use Spotify to listen to popular music then yeah it will definitely feel like it not much compared to anything else, but if you listen to a lot of music and different types of music there is no match to Spotify.