PRS for Music chief economist Will Page has analysed the statistics, which come a year after his report on the long tail that revealed only 3m of 13m available tracks online were purchased in 2007.

The period under analysis - February to July 2009 - covers the first six months of public access to Spotify in the UK. There were a total of 1bn streams over the period and a UK user base of 2.7m, meaning each user streamed an ...