Netflix is making a TV show about the origins of the popular streaming service.
The series will be based on Sven Carlsson’s and Jonas Leijonhufvud’s book Spotify Untold. It will tell the story of the streaming platform detailing how it was taken from a concept to the world’s go-to method of listening to music.
Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify in 2006. They came up with the idea in response to the rise in music piracy. Their solution was a way for people to listen to unlimited music for a small cost and to pay the artists according to the number of streams they get.
Yellow Bird will produce the limited series for Netflix. Per-Olav Sorensen is set to direct the series and Berna Levin will executive produce.
“It’s the story of how a small band of Swedish tech industry insiders transformed music — how we listen to it and how it’s made — it is truly a tale for our time,” Levin said in a statement. “Not only is this a story about the way all our lives have changed in the last decade, it’s about the battle for cultural and financial influence in a globalized, digitized world.”
More details to be shared when they are announced.
