TikTok may be out but ByteDance’s Resso music app is thriving

An app whose popularity has been growing in India has escaped India’s ban on Chinese apps. Resso, which calls itself a social music streaming app and is from the ByteDance stable that launched TikTok, has hit 10.6 million first-time downloads in all, with 74 per cent of that being in India, mobile app marketing intelligence firm Tower Sensor said.

ByteDance launched Resso in March this year after a testing phase in India and Indonesia. It had licensed music from Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin and Beggars Group, as well as big Indian publishers such as T-Series, Saregama, Zee Music, YRF Music, Times Music, Tips, Venus and Shemaroo, as well as Speed Records, Anand Audio, Lahiri Music, Divo and Muzik 247, according to a TechCrunch report.