Swedish Internet music streaming service Spotify has returned to the invitation-only format it used before its popularity surged.

According to Spotify, the format has been changed because the "huge demand" caused by the launch of an app for Apple iPhones and handsets running the Google Android platform, this week.

"We are going to have to temporarily reinstate our invite system in the UK. We are invite-only in all our other launch countries but we hope to be able to remove the need for an invite again very soon," said Spotify's Andres Sehr in a blog.

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