Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by coldtea on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:36AM (#19309093)

And the news is?

In a country with 1.4+ billion people, you just put up ads for the new service, make sign up and basic functionality free, and even a "urinate on your carpet" service could get 1M uniques on a few days...

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by sreekar545 on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:05PM (#19312594)

Ha ha. That's true. Also, the craze towards anything American in India is mind-boggling. People are going to install and use it for some time even if they don't like the service.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by ptd on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:38AM (#19309101)

I’m not too familiar with this hypothesis, do you have any sources I can refer to?

Thanks

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by coldtea on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:40AM (#19309114)

Sorry, I don't ascribe to the theory that people shouldn't use their observations of industry/society/media/etc and brains to make deductions unless there's a ready-made paper and some stats they can quote.

I came with this hypothesis on my own, without referencing some media industry analyst...

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by Erlich_Bachman on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:25AM (#19309295)

I think the poster probably refers to the basic math of the number of subscriptions/size of the market.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by poizan42 on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:43AM (#19310137)

Hitting 0.07% of the market with a free service in a few days is not impressive, do you really need a source for that?

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