Trinidad and Tobago will be one of the 80 countries that Spotify will now be available in.

At Spotify’s Stream On event today, CEO Daniel Ek announced a major global expansion for the streaming service: 80 new markets across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.

“We’ll be expanding Spotify’s global footprint significantly,” Ek said early on in the event. “This move will make Spotify available to more than a billion people in new markets around the world, with nearly half of them already using the internet.”

The company will also make Spotify available in 36 new languages, including Romanian, Hindi and Swahili, so it supports more than 60 languages.

It is Spotify’s broadest expansion to date, bringing the service to a total of more than 180 markets. 

As of the fourth quarter of 2020, Spotify reported 345 million total monthly active listeners (up 27% for the year), including 155 million Premium subscribers (up 24%). The service offers more than 70 million individual tracks, including over 2 million podcast titles.

Spotify at the moment is available across about half of the world, “but there are still millions of creators and billions of listeners who don’t yet have access to Spotify,” Ek said, adding that more details would be released shortly. 

The new Spotify countries will have the ability to sign up for free and paid Premium plans; in select markets, Spotify will offer Individual, Family, Duo and Student Plan options too. It will be available on mobile and with its desktop web player, with some exceptions. 

During the event today, the company also announced that a new subscription offering was due to arrive late this year, with hi-fi audio becoming available for a presumably higher price point, and that an international expansion in its podcast producer The Ringer was also in the works. 

“Having more listeners on our platform creates more opportunities for artists and podcasters to make a living from their work. And more creators means more audio content for our users to discover,” said Alex Norström, Spotify’s chief freemium business officer. “This creates an essential flywheel between creators and listeners that is the foundation of our business — and in the end, it is what will propel the audio industry forward.”

Spotify revealed new exclusive podcast programming, such as a podcast from President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen called Renegades: Born in the USA; Batman Unburied, part of a partnership with Warner Bros. and DC Comics; and Ava Duvernay’s first podcast project, which focuses on criminal justice. It also said it had scored a deal with AGBO, the entertainment company from powerhouse movie directors Anthony and Joe Russo. The Russo brothers, who have spearheaded Marvel film hits like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: End Game, will create multiple podcast series for Spotify. 

A replay of Spotify’s Stream On event is available at Spotify.com/StreamOn and YouTube.com/Spotify. 

• The full list of new markets includes:

• Angola

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Armenia

• Azerbaijan

• Bahamas

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belize

• Benin

• Bhutan

• Botswana

• Brunei

• Darussalam

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cabo Verde

• Cambodia

• Cameroon

• Chad

• Comoros

• Côte d’Ivoire

• Curaçao

• Djibouti

• Dominica

• Equatorial

• Guinea

• Eswatini

• Fiji

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Georgia

• Ghana

• Grenada

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Guyana

• Haiti

• Jamaica

• Kenya

• Kiribati

• Kyrgyzstan

• Lao People’s Democratic Republic

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Macau

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Maldives

• Mali

• Marshall Islands

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Micronesia

• Mongolia

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Nauru

• Nepal

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Pakistan

• Palau

• Papua New Guinea

• Rwanda

• Samoa

• San Marino

• Sao Tome and Principe

• Senegal

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• Solomon Islands

• Sri Lanka

• St. Kitts and Nevis

• St. Lucia

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Suriname

• Tanzania

• Timor-Leste

• Togo

• Tonga

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Tuvalu

• Uganda

• Uzbekistan

• Vanuatu

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe