YouTube Music Had 3X Better 1st Week Than Spotify In India

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and global head of music Lyor Cohen are in India to celebrate the launch of YouTube Music there and announce that the app was downloaded 3 million times in its first week.

That's 3 times more than Spotify, who had 1 million signups during its first week in India.

Underscoring the importance of Inida as a market, Cohen shared that YouTube’s charts where “week to week, in 2019, an average one-fifth of the entries on the Global Top Songs chart featured Indian artists."