Homegrown platforms
Homegrown music streaming providers are going through competitors from Spotify and Apple Music, who just lately introduced plans to develop additional within the continent. Right here’s who they’ll be up in opposition to:
🎵 Boomplay: Partly owned by Transsion Holdings, a Chinese language firm that’s Africa’s primary cell phone provider. The app comes pre-installed on its telephones, and had round 75 million customers as of July 2020.
🎵 Mdundo: Free music streaming and downloading service that began in Kenya in 2013, it permits folks to obtain songs, slightly than stream them, and performs advertisements at their begin. Raised $6.4 million in its 2020 IPO.
🎵 MusicTime: Streaming app from MTN Group, certainly one of Africa’s largest cell community operators by subscribers. Launched in South Africa in 2018 as a pay-as-you-go service.
Extra African audio streaming and downloading providers embody: Nigeria’s uduX and Spinlet, Kenya’s Smubu, South Africa’s Mziiki and Senegal’s MusikBi.
