Spotify launches in Canada with a catalog of 20 million songs

Updated 6:33 a.m. PT with a comment from Spotify.

Swedish music streaming company Spotify launched in Canada today, three years after the company debuted in the U.S.

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Spotify says it is “now available in 58 markets” in total, with over “40 million active users and over 10 million paying subscribers.” These user-base stats, however, aren’t fresh; they were announced back in May.

With this launch, Spotify claims to have “one of the most extensive Canadian music catalogs available, including a comprehensive Quebecois library.”

Spotify sent us the following statement:

The Canadian Spotify has all the functionality and access that Americans experience. The library has the most extensive Canadian music catalog available including a comprehensive Quebecois offering — we built this with local tastes in mind. Canadians will have access to over 20 million songs on whatever platform of their choice.

Spotify announced a similar 20-million-song milestone in the U.S. in 2012.

A personal familiar with the matter tells VentureBeat that Spotify’s music catalogs “vary somewhat” between markets.