Airtel’s Wynk Music crosses 50 million users

Wynk Music, the OTT music app from Bharti Airtel, said that it has crossed the 50 million app installs mark, underlining its growing popularity amongst music lovers in India.

Wynk music now plays approx one billion songs per month. The app has seen number of daily songs streamed grow by 200 per cent over the last one year and its users are spending more average daily time on the app.

As per App Annie data, Wynk now has the highest number of active daily users in its category. It also has the largest share of category time amongst all music streaming apps in India. The average daily time spent on the app by users has grown by 25 per cent over last year, making Wynk one of the most active mobile apps in India across all categories.

Wynk is amongst the most downloaded music streaming apps in India with close to 100,000 daily installs. 45 per cent of the overall Wynk users are non-Airtel customers, making it one of the largest carrier agnostic platforms from a telco globally. Wynk’s design features that help users save up to 70 per cent data and deliver music experience across all network technologies have added to the app’s popularity.

Bollywood music is still the most popular category for Wynk users, making up 54% of overall songs plays. English music has grown to 26 per cent and Regional music makes up for the remaining share. Along with a deeper regional music focus, Wynk recently added the entire repertoire of most in-demand international artists- Metallica & Taylor Swift.

Wynk’s content kitty boasts of close to 3 Million songs from over 500 labels in 12 regional languages. Wynk has streaming partnership rights with nearly all content providers and labels in the industry providing users an unmatchable entertainment experience.