For the past couple of weeks, there have been speculations around one of the biggest music streaming services in the world, Spotify launching its services in India. The rumour surfaced after the Swedish giant opened its office in Mumbai.
On Thursday, during Spotify’s Investor Day 2018 presentation in New York, the company’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek confirmed the India launch plans by stating, “We are working on launching in some of the biggest markets in the world, places like India, Russia, and Africa which has a very rich musical culture.”
Although Ek didn’t reveal any specific details, according to the details present in the public offering filing, the company reported that it has leased an office in Mumbai and that it has 308 employees in total in Australia, Brazil, India, Singapore and 17 other countries.
Recently, Spotify launched its services in 4 new countries. They are Israel, Romania, South Africa and Vietnam. The Swedish giant also confirmed that it is going public on April 3 via a direct listing method as opposed to the traditional public offering.
Spotify is the only big player which is yet to launch its services in India. Global players such as Apple Music, Google Play Music and Amazon Music have all launched their services in the sub-continent and are competing alongside local players such as Gaana and Saavn.
Will Spotify be able to dominate and conquer the Indian market? Only time will tell.
Stay tuned for further updates.
Ranjiv enjoys a wide range of music ranging from electronic music to hard rock and all the way back to the retro classics. His interest in EDM was triggered about 8 years back by the likes of artists like Avicii and David Guetta. The broad spectrum of sub-genres that EDM offers is what excites him.
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We would be glad if Spotify comes to india, cos it would be cheap for us now and we can enjoy our music.
Hope you guys come soon :)
I’m waiting from a year or more for spotify to come in India. Hope the team will be here soon.
Lol
I use Spotify anyways!
Just need a VPN while signing in
Then vpn can be turned off
S I M P L E !
I was using Spotify that way but since couple of weeks it’s not working. I can’t login with my account? Don’t know what is the problem?
But if you have solutions please inform..
Sorry, but we don’t have any solutions for this.
I’m kinda waiting for it since a long time and i just love to listen on it ?❤
When the date of launch #Spotify in ??•
Yet to be confirmed.
Wow finally my Wish going to come true.. Spotify comes to india.. Hope they come soon.. ????