{"id":1230,"date":"2019-02-27T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T11:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:20:41","slug":"spotify-arrives-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/spotify-arrives-in-india\/1230\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Arrives In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services in the world has just made its debut in India. Spotify is now available in India with all-new features specially tuned to match the taste of Indian music fans. It doesn\u2019t matter whether you have an iPhone or Android phone because Spotify is now officially available through the Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/spotify-music-and-podcasts\/id324684580?mt=8\" rel=\"noopener\">App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.spotify.music&amp;hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play Store<\/a> so that you can just install the app for free and start streaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify app is completely free but you can upgrade to a premium subscription by paying just <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u20b9 119 per month and enjoy all the local and international music, along with the benefits like offline music playback, ad-free tracks and stream music to any device you like.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Spotify app is now available on mobile, desktop and tablet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify | Now in India | Play Free\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCAmRZ9Kozo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on this grand occasion, <\/span><b>Daniel Ek, Spotify founder, and CEO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs Spotify grows, our goal is to bring millions of artists and billions of fans together from every country and background. India has an incredibly rich music culture and to best serve this market, we\u2019re launching a custom-built experience. Not only will Spotify bring Indian artists to the world, but we\u2019ll also bring the world\u2019s music to fans across India. Spotify\u2019s music family just got a whole lot bigger.\u201d<\/span><\/i> <b>Amarjit Singh Batra, Managing Director, Spotify India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, added, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIndians love music. It\u2019s an inherent part of our lifestyle and culture, whether we pray, work, or relax. The mobile internet revolution has led to a rapid rise in the number of connected Indians, making music streaming the preferred way to enjoy the music here.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify right now has a huge library of music containing more than 40 million or 4 crore songs and 3 billion playlists, that contain both local and international tracks from a lot of artists. Also, another interesting feature of Spotify is that it learns from your habits, and provides better recommendations every day. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify is everywhere as you can play<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Spotify in your car, on TVs, voice and wifi speakers. Spotify also integrates with Google Maps, Tinder and Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify has revealed to us that they have made changes to the app and tuned it exclusively for India, providing multi-language music recommendations and Spotify\u2019s music recommendation engine can now be tuned to Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. It has also got City playlists, as it can find the most popular tracks in cities using the new algorithmic playlists tracking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As of now, Spotify has got <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">207 million active users out of which 96 million users pay for Spotify Premium. On the platform, almost 30,000 new tracks are added each day. Also, just like Spotify&#8217;s presence and operation in 78 other markets, Spotify Premium will be available for free to all users for 30 days. <\/span>\u00a0Users can pay for subscriptions using <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PayTM, \u00a0credit, and debit cards from Visa and MasterCard. Spotify also has music sharing integrations with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Snapchat. In India, OnePlus, Anheuser-Busch InBev and GoUSA are Spotify\u2019s exclusive advertising launch partners. You can download the app right now and sign up for free or head over to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotify.com\/in\/free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify&#8217;s official website<\/a><\/strong> to start streaming!<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- WP-Appbox (Version: 4.5.10 \/\/ Store: googleplay \/\/ ID: com.spotify.music) -->\n<div class=\"wpappbox wpappbox-537bd2b5bfa295b11452814f348980e7 googleplay colorful compact\">\n\t<div class=\"appicon\">\n\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/anon.to\/?https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.spotify.music\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/play-lh.googleusercontent.com\/IzQgYCcnCFCD08GR-3bdtcT8xzOvrNkC84avGT5CwTX2VIqmTmKKJcP_Cd4JoBOdmCMlTndlOzV6hrthg2fOWA=s128-h480\" alt=\"Spotify: Music and Podcasts\" title=\"-\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"applinks\" href=\"https:\/\/anon.to\/?https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.spotify.music\"><\/a>\n\t<div class=\"appdetails\">\n\t\t<div class=\"apptitle\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/anon.to\/?https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.spotify.music\" class=\"apptitle\">Spotify: Music and Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"price\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"label\">Price: <\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"value\">Free<sup>+<\/sup><\/span> \n\t\t\t<span class=\"rating\"><div title=\"5 of 5 stars\" class=\"rating-stars stars-colorful stars50\"><\/div><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><!-- \/WP-Appbox -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services in the world has just made its debut in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,115],"tags":[270,354],"class_list":{"0":"post-1230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apps","8":"category-android","9":"tag-android-app","10":"tag-spotify","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}