We know about the growing reach of African streaming service Boomplay: it had 69 million monthly active users by April this year.
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Splice is working with African streaming service Boomplay
Splice built its community with its subscription model for music loops, beats and samples.
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Triller and Boomplay team up for African music playlists
Boomplay has been building its reputation as one of the key local streaming services across Africa, growing to more than 65 million monthly active users.
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Africa expansion for UMG/Boomplay and for Freeme Digital
From DSP launches to label expansions to [waves enormous plug] new education initiatives for the industry, there is plenty of exciting activity happening around Africa’s music ecosystem. There are two more […]
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African music accounts for 70% of streams on Boomplay service
Streaming service Boomplay’s MD East Africa Martha Huro was one of the speakers at the NY:LON Connect conference yesterday, in an MQA-hosted session on opportunities for regional DSPs. She offered […]
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Music Ally Report :: Q2 2020 Edition
Our main feature explores the evolution of live music, as we look towards a time when concerts are able to resume safely. What have we learned from the livestreaming boom during the Covid-19 lockdown, and what are the prospects for ‘hybrid’ online/offline concerts in the coming months? We’ve also got a feature recapping two thought-provoking […]
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African streaming service Boomplay now has 75m users
As one of the main pan-African music streaming services, Boomplay has grown rapidly in the past couple of years. In July 2018 it had 17 million monthly users, but grew this […]
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Music Ally Report 426: Trends of 2019
This year we’ve picked 42 (also the answer to life, the universe and everything as fans of Douglas Adams will know) of the trends and moments we found most significant in 2019. What are they? *takes deep breath* industry growth; the European Copyright Directive and Music Modernization Act; Spotify’s two-sided marketplace; Apple Music’s bundled future; […]
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Boomplay strikes Merlin deal and says it’s grown to 62m users
African streaming service Boomplay’s latest licensing deal is with indie-agency Merlin. The company already had a full set of deals with the global major-labels, as well as a catalogue of […]
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Sony Music is latest major label to license Boomplay in Africa
African music-streaming service Boomplay now has a full set of deals with the global major labels, with Sony Music the third and final major to strike an agreement. Sony’s catalogue […]
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African music-streaming service Boomplay now has 53m users
Boomplay has become one of the most prominent music-streaming services to have launched in Africa, and now it has announced a new figure for its growth. It now claims to […]
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Boomplay raises $20m in new funding
It has been a busy few weeks for Boomplay, the digital music service that is building across multiple markets in Africa. Last month, it signed a licensing deal with Warner Music […]