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Swede among England's richest
Not the richest Swede in England but among the 60 millionaires in England under 30.
Daniel Ek –among England’s richest
Swede Daniel Ek (founder of Spotify) tops the Sunday Times Rich List of young people in music. Among the 60 millionaires under age 30, Spotify’s Daniel Ek tops the music list. Ek’s Spotify fortune is measured at $307 million.
He started his business in 2006, with Martin Lorentzon, and the two went on to launch Spotify in the U.S. last year. Last week it was announced that Coca-Cola was to partner with Spotify to help both brands expand around the world. They will produce a Coke app based on the music service in time for the Olympics. Ek is, however, not the richest Swede living in England – that title goes to one of Tetrapak’s heirs – Hans Rausing and family. Spotify is a music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal.
Daniel Ek was earlier labeled most important ..in the world of music, according to Forbes magazine's 30 under 30 listing: Spotify's Daniel Ek, most important
For more info on Spotify U.S., see Spotify
Written by Erik Hanhart on 17 May 2012 12:03 AM
Many many artists says that they doesnt get money enough from spotify. It is terrible for all new artists that cant live on their music, because that young kids thinks that it is okey to steal and to parasite on other peoples hardwork ! Note ! The swedish hamburger-company MAX is so hard competitor to the both US-companies, so MAX is taking over more and more. The meat at MAX is so controlled and echologicaladapted so you can take contact with the suplier of the meat, and so with all their products they buy to MAX. Real healthy meat to be burgers and so. The swedish Julmust and Påskmust has as usual showed both cola companies that they cant compeat with the old swedish MUST. JulMust, PåskMust, SommarMust for midsummer. The "new thing" for this summer in Sweden is the old Ciders of many sorts. In Sweden there is even and "Champagne" made by Åkesson. Many new Swedishproduced redwines, whitewines and also over 200 sorts of swedish beer can now these days be found.
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