Spotify paying) in December 2014, 75 million users (20 million paying) in June 2015, 30 million paying subscribers in March 2016, 40 million subscribers in September 2016, and 100 million total users in June 2016. As of November 2018, Spotify has 191 million active users, including over 87 million paying subscribers. According to "TechCrunch", Spotify was planning to launch on the stock market in 2017, but is instead planning on doing the IPO in 2018 in order to "build up a better balance sheet and work on shifting its business model to improve its margins". The value of its IPO is
A Million Lights and perceived charisma more than its songwriting nous. In fact, Cheryl didn't write any of the tracks on the album. When an album is conceived in such an impersonal manner it's difficult to feel anything but ambivalence towards it." Laura Hills from MSN Music opined: "A Million Lights is the equivalent of pop painting by numbers. It's almost like Cheryl and her team have entered the entire contents of the top 40 over the past 10 years and come up with an equation for achieving chart success." Before the album release, "A Million Lights" had doubled the amount of pre-orders