Spotify, the music streaming website, expects to launch an Apple iPhone version of its popular online jukebox software within weeks.
In a blog post the company demonstrated the application, or app, which could rival Apple's iTunes dominance of the mobile phone music market.
Spotify has been called an "iTunes killer" because of the ease of use and its comprehensive catalogue of over 6m songs.
"It's going to be very interesting to see if Apple lets this through or sees us as competition – fingers crossed," a company spokesman said. If the app is approved it could knock Apple's revenue as the app will not provide links to "buy" tracks from the iTunes music store.
Spotify said the new app will be available for free, but only to premium subscribers who pay £9.99 a month to listen to unlimited music without radio-style advertising breaks.
The website, founded by Swedish internet entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006, has more than 2m users in Britain, and more than six million across Europe. It is planning to expand into the US later this summer.
Mr Ek and Mr Lorentzon founded Spotify with €8m (£6.9m) in 2006. The pair sold a €13m stake to Nordic investors Northzone Ventures and Creandum last autumn and are seeking a new round of investment at a level which values the company at £200m, Mr Ek, who started computer programming at 13 and has set up several other internet businesses, said the company is doubling its monthly revenues but refused to release any figures. He has said the company may consider listing on the London Stock Exchange.
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