The company said this means 15% of active users are now on one of two paid tiers (either £4.99 a month for ad-free streaming or £9.99 a month for ad-free streaming and mobile portability).

This means there are around 6.6m users that Spotify would class as "active", after the company announced last summer that it had reached 10m users in Europe. Therefore over one-third of them are not classed as "active" by the company. Music Week contacted Spotify and the ...