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When Spotify was made available in the US, I don't think there were any other services where you could, for free, choose a song and play it. Other services would just let you listen to similar music for free, but Spotify let you listen to the actual song you wanted.
Grooveshark
Which didn't pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.