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# Spotify India Passes 1M Users In 1st Week: Stunning Stats About Streaming in World’s Most Populous Country
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-india-passes-1m-users-in-1st-week-stunning-stats-about-streaming-in-worlds-most-populous-cou/
- Published: 2019-03-05T09:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-03-05T09:15:00.000Z
- Description: Spotify announced that it has passed 1 million users in India just a week after launching there. It's an impressive number until you remember that the country has a population. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/03/spotify-india-passes-1m-users-in-1st-week-stunning-stats-about-st
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, India, Spotify, streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![Spotify-India-300x223](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a46b13be200d-200wi "Spotify-India-300x223")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a46b13be200d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Spotify announced that it has passed 1 million users in India just a week after launching there. It's an impressive number until you remember that the country has a population of 1.34 billion, and that assuming that Spotify is following the same pattern as other streamers in India, only about 10,000 are paying to use the services.Inida is a tough market for an music service, but Spotify entered late and under a cloud of litigation with Warner Music Group over royalties to music publishers. Here are just a few of the obstacles that Spotify must overcome in India:
- India may have 1.34 billion people, but only about 11% or 150 million subscribe to a music streaming service.
- Of that 150 million, only about 1% or 1.5 million pay to stream music.
- Those that do pay are charged far less that in other territories. Spotify Premium costs just $1.67 monthly in India and Apple Music charges $1.69
- Even these low subscription fees may prove to high in a country where the average nominal yearly income in 2018 was $2,134
The Indian music streaming market is expected to almost triple in the next 2-3 years to 400 million users. How many Indian's choose Spot and how many of those pay monthly could determine whether or not Spotify has positioned itself as a truly global company. Source: [Deloitte / IMI study](https://www.creativefirst.film/show%5Fpdf/1791?ref=hypebot.com)