{"id":116567,"date":"2019-03-05T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/spotify-adds-1-million-unique-listeners-in-india-in-less-than-a-week\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:06:18","slug":"spotify-adds-1-million-unique-listeners-in-india-in-less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/spotify-adds-1-million-unique-listeners-in-india-in-less-than-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify adds 1 million unique listeners in India in less than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main\">\n        <!-- .CONTENT BODY --><\/p>\n<p>Spotify Technology SA, the world&#8217;s most popular paid music streaming service, said it racked up more than 1 million unique users in India across its free and premium tiers since launching less than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify launched in India on Tuesday, stepping into a price-sensitive market crowded by well-funded players such as Reliance Industries&#8217; JioSaavn and Apple&#8217;s Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish company is offering a free version that will run with ads, alongside a premium ad-free variant that will charge users 119 Indian rupees ($1.68) per month.<\/p>\n<p>India, with a population of 1.3 billion and more than 400 million smartphone users, is a potentially huge market for the Swedish company.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Tencent-backed Gaana leads the Indian streaming market with over 80 million monthly users. Spotify has 207 million monthly active users globally and 96 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the streaming service also competes with other players including Amazon&#8217;s Prime Music, Alphabet Inc&#8217;s Google Play Music and Xiaomi-backed Hungama.<br \/>\n                <!--ad-spot --><br \/>\n        <!--ad-spot -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '482038382136514');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/business\/spotify-adds-1-million-unique-listenersindialess-thanweek_12210501.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Spotify Technology SA, the world&#8217;s most popular paid music streaming service, said it racked up more than 1 million unique users in India across its free and premium tiers since launching less than a week ago. Spotify launched in India on Tuesday, stepping into a price-sensitive market crowded by well-funded players such as Reliance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}