Online music company Spotify will launch its music service in the US.
The move assumes importance as the company had to struggle to resolve several licensing deals for about two years.
Founder Daniel Ek told the BBC, "It’s taken longer than I would have wished."
He said that the Spotify model made things difficult.
"Spotify is a very different model to what they’re used to – you get paid every time you get played. It’s a whole new concept for the music industry.
"There has been a healthy scepticism about whether this will work and should we bet the farm on this."
However, Spotify has reduced features of its freemium product ahead of the launch in the US.
In April, Spotify made significant changes to its "freemium" model by reducing the amount of listening available to users of its free music streaming service by half and limiting the maximum number of plays for a song to five for non-subscribers.
The company said that users can only listen to 10 hours of music a month which is half of what users were allowed to do earlier.. Moreover, the maximum number of times non-subscribers can listen to an individual track has been capped at five times overall. The company said that new users will be migrated to the new model after six months.
It is believed that the online music company, which has stressed in the past that its "freemium" model is essential to fight piracy, has relented to the pressure from record labels, who license their content to Spotify.
Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks had said that the company had to take the steps to grow and "balance a number of priorities."
He had added, "Chief amongst those priorities is to keep the free service, which is what makes Spotify unique, and what you’re seeing here is a balance of these priorities."
"We’ve shown that the model is doing extremely well, but as things stand we need to tweak the service to ensure everyone has access to legal music in the long term."
