Music app of YouTube downloaded 15 mn times in a month: Google CEO Pichai

YouTube, a Google arm, which counts India as one of its fastest-growing markets, has now entered a new league with over 15 million downloads of its music app in just a month. During the company’s post-earnings call on Tuesday, Google CEO Sunder Pichai gave out the number, that caught the imagination of millions of netizens.

Alphabet’s Google competes with players such as Amazon Music, Spotify and homegrown companies JioSaavn and Gaana which are rapidly gaining share of the music streaming market in the country. Google introduced YouTube Music, a made-for-music app in March to make the world of music easier to explore and more personalised to users in India. The music streaming service consists of official songs, albums, thousands of playlists and artist radio plus YouTube’s catalog of remixes, live performances, covers and music videos.