As music ally first reported, spotify, one of the music streaming media giants, is exploring the NFT collection market with artists At present, the Android client in the United States has opened relevant function tests, and the first batch of content covers the NFT preview of artists such as Steve Aoki and the wombats.
Although there was no immediate response to theverge's request for comment, at least a spotify spokesperson addressed music ally In a statement
We are conducting an experiment to help a small number of artists promote NFT products through profile pages.
Our company will regularly pilot a variety of projects to improve the use experience for artists and fans.
Some of these concepts eventually pave the way for broader functional improvements, but others are only for the purpose of exploratory learning.
In recent years, more and more companies are trying to get a ride on NFT, but the early boom seems to be slowing down or even fading.
According to the Wall Street Journal, as of May 3, daily NFT sales have plummeted 92% from 225000 in September last year to 19000 recently.
At the same time, the number of NFT active fell from around 110000 at the end of last year to around 14000 at the same time.
Emma Roth After updating spotify client, it is found that it has been able to successfully navigate to the artist home pages of Steve Aoki and the wombats and see the NFT collection located below the album track list.
After clicking the thumbnail, you can also view the large version and brief description of NFT. However, spotify does not seem to support GIF in video or GIF motion graphics format. At present, it can only present still images.
In addition, spotify provides a "view more" option to redirect to opensea, a well-known NFT trading market.
In fact, after the company released the list of work related to blockchain technology and NFT, rumors about spotify's entry into the field of Web3 surfaced as early as March. During this period, some netizens also showed screenshots of the official questionnaire.
However, according to music ally, in the current integration test stage, spotify will not charge Commission for any NFT transactions that jump through the platform for the time being. As for when to promote and open this function to more artists, it is not known at present.
Finally, in addition to spotify, instagram also launched the integration test of NFT last week.