has yes to yet to make a profit in twenty seventeen sales rose almost thirty nine percent to over four billion euros to growth came at a cost losses also mounted from five hundred thirty nine million euros to almost one and a quarter billion spotify is revenues come from users who pay to listen to music streamed directly from its internet platform company as a catalog of thirty five million songs to choose from and seventy one million subscribers so spotify is i.p.o. naturally is much anticipated but given the current market turmoil thanks to the u.s. china trade dispute is there's a good time to go public that's what i asked our stock market correspondent really bugs and is his answer. it's the worst possible time for such a move a the market conditions overall and then not animosity that fear that tech stocks