10 Things You Never Knew About Spotify

2014 is set to be the year of the music streaming services, with Dr Dre launching Beats and Google music continuing to grow, but Spotify is still the major player in the ever changing streaming game. With that in mind, here's 10 things you might not have known about Spotify.

1. However Spotify have been trying to help new artists and have launched a feature whereby bands can only list up to three items of merchandise at once, to sell through the platform commission-free.

2. Spotify is not just for your computer. The service is now available on a wide variety of platforms including Android, BlackBerry and iPhone.

3. Led Zeppelin’s music is available to stream on Spotify, but not anywhere else. The band entered a deal with the company in 2013 where they would be the only streaming service allowed to carry their music. However you can’t listen to The Beatles who are in a similarly exclusive deal with Apple.

4. In April 2013 Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ became the song which received the highest number of plays in any single day. Weeks later they broke a second Spotify streaming record, with their new album 'Random Access Memories' achieving the most first-week streams ever.

1. Now Spotify counts towards the UK chart. Yes the UK has finally caught up with the times and announced that Spotify, along with Youtube will now make an impact on the chart. It might have been a long time coming but it sounds like the future is finally here.