Spotify May Be Headed to Facebook, Game Consoles

Spotify hasn't even launched in the US yet and already there are rumors on what platforms it is going to expand to. The mobile market is an obvious one and Spotify already has an app for most of the big smartphone platforms but it now looks like it wants to conquer the consumer electronics niche as well. Another interesting though not exactly new possibility is a partnership of some kind with Facebook, which doesn't have a dedicated music service yet.

The Music Ally blog is sparking new rumors about an upcoming deal with Facebook after similar talks have been popping up recently spurred by a somewhat vague status update by the social network's cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which read “Spotify is so good.” Things have remained quiet since but the rumors have been simmering partly because it makes so much sense.

Facebook is the world's largest social network and it's distancing itself from MySpace in the US as well. One of its weak points though has been the lack of a dedicated music service. For quite a while iLike was the de facto music service on the social network but after it was acquired by MySpace it was clear that Facebook had to look elsewhere.

And it does need a music component of sorts both for the potential revenue but also as a feature, as it is currently the one thing that MySpace can still boast over Facebook. It now looks like thing are picking up and an announcement may come as early as this month. A partnership between the two is likely to start off with a playlist sharing feature on Facebook but it may eventually evolve to an actual music app.

Aside from the new social networking components it also looks like Spotify is trying to get the service to as many devices as possible. We already knew TVs were next, after the music service signed a deal with Swedish telco Telia, but it's now apparent that games consoles are also a strong possibility after a presentation at a Scottish Society of Computers and the Law event in Edinburgh revealed that Sony's PlayStation 3 might be getting a music streaming app from Spotify.