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Spotify Files Papers For Its Entry To The Stock Market

The world's most popular music streaming service has announced its long-anticipated plan to debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify's fate, however, isn't entirely in its own hands.
Daniel Ek, CEO of Swedish music streaming service Spotify, in Tokyo in 2016. The company is expected to go public late next month or early April.

See SPOT list.

Spotify, the world's most-used on-demand music streaming service, has pulled the curtain back on its New York Stock Exchange debut, expected in late March or early April, when it will trade under the symbol SPOT, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

As NPR , Spotify is not entering the market through an initial public offering,

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