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How the Battle for the Indian Streaming Market Will Heat Up in 2019

"It is absolutely a game changer," said Paramdeep Singh, co-founder and executive vice chairman at JioSaavn, told Billboard over a Skype call recently. "We are anticipating that we'll add tens of millions of new users on top of the existing base of Saavn and JioMusic every month. Right now, we're projecting north of 100 million monthly active users on JioSaavn at the end of Q1. We're planning to leverage the growth of the Jio network, and their ecosystem at large, to be able to drive a lot of these users."

Leading Indian Streaming Services Saavn and JioMusic to Form Country’s Biggest Music Platform

Two of India's leading digital music services, Saavn and JioMusic, have joined forces in a bid to grow their global reach and take on the giants of the streaming sector...

Reliance JioMusic to combine Saavn with itself in $1 billion-plus deal

Reliance Industries Limited, India’s petroleum-to-entertainment conglomerate, has struck a definitive agreement to combine music-streaming business Saavn, with its own digital music service, JioMusic, the companies said in their respective press statements on Friday...

Saavn to merge with RIL’s JioMusic

Combined entity will have a valuation of over $1 billion with JioMusic’s implied valuation at $670 million...

Dillon Francis Continues Pushing His Sound With English-Punjabi ‘Bom Diggy’ Remix: Listen

Rishi Malhotra and the making of Saavn, the South-Asian soundtrack

Saavn CEO and co-founder Rishi Malhotra on building one of India’s leading music apps, being a musician and eating data for breakfast...

How GQ’s Digital Don Rishi Malhotra redefined the music streaming business!

Rishi Malhotra’s Manifesto: Create a roadmap for your life with a unique purpose. Make work and play the same thing. Don’t be afraid to begin at zero – Day 1 is an exciting place...

Here’s what a homegrown beer brand and music streaming app have in common

Bira 91's team of specialists and Saavn's editorial team are curating playlists that you can bop your head to, on the all new Bira 'Hip Hop Channel.' Country's favorite beer brand resonates with the inclusive and collaborative nature of hip-hop that appropriates and contextualizes diverse influences and unites them into a new yet familiar creative form...

Saavn’s Paramdeep Singh on the Future of Home-Grown Indie Music in India

Now, indie music is more accessible than ever — a phenomenon that can, in some part, be credited to the country’s leading digital music streaming service, Saavn...

Subscription Music Service Sounds a New Note: Profit

Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have helped to revitalize record labels while outpacing downloads and physical sales as the most popular way consumers obtain music. But there's one thing apparently none has yet achieved: Profits...