Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek outlined the company's expansion plans to Music Week and explained why licensing issues mean a German launch is currently off the cards.

For Ek, the growth of Spotify is based around its overriding aim to become "the music platform on the internet where you manage your music and then consume it on any device you want".

This has been an incremental process, helped primarily by the playlist-sharing functionality that moved up several notches earlier ...