Qobuz launches in Australia, New Zealand and Northern Europe its HiRes streaming and download service. It will be opening in six new countries: Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Qobuz is now present in 12 countries. In Europe: in France, where the platform was born, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the US since 2019.
Qobuz was founded in 2007 with a mission to provide a musical experience based on excellent audio quality and content of unparalleled richness. Qobuz’s music library currently contains over 70 million tracks, with the greatest number of Hi-Res masters of any streaming service. Qobuz also features half a million articles created and selected by a team of experts, consisting of biographies, musical booklets, album reviews, and interviews. As a part of its expansion, the editorial team has introduced more than 100 new playlists featuring local artists from each new country that are available to subscribers around the world.
Qobuz provides all of its subscriptions in the following audio qualities:
- High Resolution (Hi-Res) quality – often referred to as ‘studio quality’ – reproduces sound as it was created and recorded in the studio, offering superior detail and dynamic range (24 bit / up to 192 kHz).
- CD Quality, often referred to as HiFi or HD quality, delivers sound in the same quality as a CD (16 bit / 44.1 kHz).
Georges Fornay, Deputy CEO of Qobuz said “Our ambition is to make Qobuz THE global benchmark for high-resolution music streaming and download platforms. Today we are pleased to bring our offering to markets where the expectation for a premium service such as ours exists and is growing. Far from a simple streaming service that gives music to consume, Qobuz aims to bring music back to its true value by offering its subscribers the best of music. In mature markets such as Australia, New Zealand, and Northern Europe, these new locations are highly strategic for Qobuz in the context of our international expansion.”
