Music streaming services provide on-demand listening, playlists, radio and podcasts, usually through an app and a subscription. Individuals are the main users, but organisations also rely on streaming for background music in shops, offices and venues, which is normally covered by different terms than a consumer subscription.
The sovereignty issues are modest compared with business software, but they are concrete. The service builds a profile of taste, habits and times of day, and the account often depends on a login with another large platform. Your library, playlists and listening history live inside the service, and moving them is rarely supported in a standard format. Catalogue availability also differs per licensing territory and can change when rights agreements end, so what you can play is controlled by the provider and the rightsholders rather than by you.
When looking at a European option, compare how listening data is used for advertising or shared with partners, whether playlists and favourites can be exported, how artists are paid, how offline downloads work and whether the catalogue and audio quality meet your needs. Services such as Spotify or Apple Music show the catalogue breadth to compare with. For business use, confirm that the licence covers public playback.