Facebook Teams Up With Spotify For New Music Service

Facebook has made a deal with Spotify to bring their music-streaming service to Facebook users. The new Facebook version of Spotify – which may be known as either Facebook Music or Spotify on Facebook –  is still being tested, but is likely to be launched within the next two weeks. The service will only be available in countries where Spotify has a presence, which does not currently include the U.S.

According to Forbes, Facebook users will be able to install the service on their desktop and will allow them to stream millions of songs in Spotify's music library through Facebook. The service will also include a function that will allow users to listen to songs simultaneously with friends in their social network.

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Spotify has been very successful in Europe, but has thus far only been available in a handful of countries including the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway and Sweden.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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