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YouTube Music continues its international expansion

31/03/2019

YouTube Music continues its international expansion adding India, 12 Latin American countries and South Africa to its worldwide coverage. YouTube Music is being developed as a replacement to Google Play Music which is likely to be retired once the full rollout of YouTube Music is complete and all the Google Play Music functionality has been developed for YouTube Music. If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, then you will get a YouTube Music […]

Top Music from Spotify in the first week in India

Spotify’s Top Music in India

19/03/2019

Spotify’s Top Music in India for its first week of operation has been shared in a blog posting and shows a mix of local Indian music and tracks from around the globe. In the first week since its launch more than one million users have registered for the app. Users in India are listening to musicians and tracks from around the globe, with 68% of artists in the top 50 coming from somewhere other than […]

Amarjit Batra, Managing Director - Spotify India

Spotify adds I million new users in India in one week

07/03/2019

Spotify adds I million new users in India in one week after its delayed launch on 27th February 2019 according to a company spokesperson. However, the company declined to say how may of these new listeners were paying subscribers or were using the ad-supported Spotify Free service. Spotify is up against strong competition in India with players like JioSaavn, Amazon Music, Xiaomi-backed Hungama and Gaana. Gaana, backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent has over 80 […]

Spotify launches in India

04/03/2019

Spotify launches in India, the world’s second most populated country where it is estimated there are over 400 million active internet users. Spotify’s has customised its offering to Indian music fans offering everything from Bollywood to Bhangra plus access to Spotify’s international music catalogue. At the services launch, Daniel Ek, Spotify founder and CEO, said, “As Spotify grows, our goal is to bring millions of artists and billions of fans together from every country and […]

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JioMusic and Saavn integrate to create South Asia’s largest music platform

17/12/2018

JioMusic and Saavn integrate to create South Asia’s largest music platform with a catalogue of more than 45 million songs and award-winning original content. The merged JioSaavn service integrates JioMusic, India’s most popular music app, and Saavn, India’s leading global over-the-top platform. This follows the recent purchase of Saavn by Reliance Industries Limited owners of JioMusic in March of this year. The new integrated JioSaavn app will be available across all App Stores including the […]

Bollywood and film music are top Indian genres

03/10/2018

Bollywood is still the most preferred music genre followed closely by other Indian film music according a recent study by the market research firm Nielsen. The Nielsen Music 360: India Study is an online study of consumer interaction with music in India. Data for this study was collected from the 14th June to the 4th July 2018 via online surveys using third-party panels. A total of 1,570 interviews were conducted among ‘Online Consumers’ 16-45 years […]

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Saavn and JioMusic merge to form India’s largest music streamer

01/04/2018

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has agreed to buy out music streaming platform Saavn and merge it with its own digital music service JioMusic to form India’s largest music streamer. The $104 million in cash and remainder in stock deal for Saavn will value the combined streaming entity at about US $1 bn with RIL holding roughly three quarters of the merged entity. Reliance plans to invest up to $100 million of which $20 million will be […]