It’s taking on Apple Music as an Indian independent music hub Among the reasons for this: unlike those paid services, Spotify is also available for free BTS gave the service a shoutout in a video clip at the time of its launch in India and because Spotify publishes the counts for the tracks that appear on its daily and weekly charts, it gives the genre’s fan communities actionable goals to achieve for their idols.Ĭase in point: BTS broke the record for the most streams for a song in any given week on Spotify India twice this year, first in August with over 2.42m plays for ‘Dynamite’ and then in November with over 2.75m plays for ‘Life Goes On’.īTS was the only act to have two releases in the top ten albums of 2020 and even though its newest effort ‘BE’ was out for just a week during Spotify’s year-end tracking period (Wrapped 2020 data covers streams from 1 January to 27 November), it was the eighteenth most streamed LP, one notch above Blackpink’s The Album. K-Pop is consumed far more on Spotify than on other global platforms such as Amazon Prime Music and Apple Music. Top Hits Telugu was No.10 on the survey of playlists with the largest year-on-year increase in followers in 2020, thanks in part to a television ad campaign starring popular Telugu film star Nagarjuna. Telugu and Tamil are two of the fastest growing regional languages on the app, the spokesperson said. However, the domination of local acts in Spotify India’s most streamed acts for the year – BTS and Justin Bieber are the only international names in the top ten – indicates a growing pan-Indian presence and the acquisition of customers around the nation, especially in the south. This contrasts with homegrown competitors like Gaana, for which Indian film and pop music in Hindi and regional languages accounts for 85% of listenership. A Spotify spokesperson told us that in any given week, the split between streams for domestic and foreign repertoire is more or less even. Spotify is expanding its audience across IndiaĪs many as eight of the 10 most streamed songs of 2020 on Spotify India were from Bollywood soundtracks, while six of the 10 most played albums were by international acts. The answer as to what fuelled this growth can be discerned to an extent by a close look at its year-end charts, longer versions of which have been exclusively shared with Music Ally. In the last week of March 2020, the corresponding total was 51.1m, and this grew to 66.6m in the last week of September, and then 93.8m at the end of November. In the last week of March 2019, Spotify India’s top 200 tracks tallied 13.4m streams. That six-fold to seven-fold increase is corroborated by the surge in the streams on the platform. While the service, which launched in India at the end of February 2019, has shared no official figures for the country since it announced it had reached more than two million monthly active users in April 2019, industry insiders say that number had risen to between 12 and 15 million by the third quarter of 2020. Yet, in the 20 months it has been around, Spotify’s growth has been impressive. Spotfiy’s detractors might delight in the fact that in India, the global market leader is in the position of an upstart, with a fraction of the customer base of local rivals such as Gaana and JioSaavn, both of which claim over 150 million monthly active users.
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