{"id":17858,"date":"2019-12-12T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=17858"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:14:34","slug":"music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

African streaming service Boomplay has had a massive year that has seen it’s growth boom as it approaches Apple Music’s numbers.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n

Music streaming in Africa is seeing a boom. In the past year giant services like Spotify and YouTube Music have launched for listeners in Africa. Africa’s own music streaming services<\/a> are seeing enormous growth as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomplay have had an incredible year that has seen them grow over 50% in nine months. In April they announced that their user-base had grown to 42 million. Later this year in August they’d already gained over 10 million more users and they’ve now revealed that they have 62 million total users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomplay announced a licensing deal with Merlin alongside the user numbers. Their new deal with the indie agency will increase their music offerings which already include global major record labels and a host of African music from local labels and artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomplay’s head of marketing for Africa, Tosin Sorinalo said: “Boomplay’s vision is to build the largest and most reliable music ecosystem in Africa, and working with Merlin brings us significantly closer to that goal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With $20 million of new funding given to Boomplay this year they look set to make a big mark in the global music streaming arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

African streaming service Boomplay has had a massive year that has seen it’s growth boom as it approaches Apple Music’s numbers. Music streaming in Africa is seeing a boom. In the past year giant services like Spotify and YouTube Music have launched for listeners in Africa. Africa’s own music streaming services are seeing enormous growth as well. Boomplay have had an incredible year that has seen them grow over 50% in nine months. In April they announced that their user-base had grown to 42 million. Later this year in August they’d already gained over 10 million more users and they’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4275,10911,11653,11057,98,3029,28,1038,422,1120],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMusic streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"African streaming service Boomplay has had a massive year that has seen it’s growth boom as it approaches Apple Music’s numbers. Music streaming in Africa is seeing a boom. In the past year giant services like Spotify and YouTube Music have launched for listeners in Africa. Africa’s own music streaming services are seeing enormous growth as well. Boomplay have had an incredible year that has seen them grow over 50% in nine months. In April they announced that their user-base had grown to 42 million. Later this year in August they’d already gained over 10 million more users and they’ve...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"799\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CockJacca\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jacca-RouteNote\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"RouteNote\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"RouteNote\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"RouteNote Blog\",\"description\":\"The World of Digital Music - Distribution - Stores and Free Music\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg\",\"width\":799,\"height\":448,\"caption\":\"Boomplay african music streaming service\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/\",\"name\":\"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c0cf8473ad65e0c00d09ff942bac997d\"},\"headline\":\"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":214,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa\",\"african music\",\"Boomplay\",\"Boomplay music\",\"growth\",\"merlin\",\"music\",\"music streaming\",\"streaming\",\"streaming service\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Digital Music News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c0cf8473ad65e0c00d09ff942bac997d\",\"name\":\"Jacca-RouteNote\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/630810cdfb9548b677f11cb2bfaac3b8?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/630810cdfb9548b677f11cb2bfaac3b8?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jacca-RouteNote\"},\"description\":\"Writing about music, listening to music, and occasionally playing music.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CockJacca\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/jacca\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog","og_description":"African streaming service Boomplay has had a massive year that has seen it’s growth boom as it approaches Apple Music’s numbers. Music streaming in Africa is seeing a boom. In the past year giant services like Spotify and YouTube Music have launched for listeners in Africa. Africa’s own music streaming services are seeing enormous growth as well. Boomplay have had an incredible year that has seen them grow over 50% in nine months. In April they announced that their user-base had grown to 42 million. Later this year in August they’d already gained over 10 million more users and they’ve...","og_url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/","og_site_name":"RouteNote Blog","article_published_time":"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":799,"height":448,"url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@CockJacca","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jacca-RouteNote","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"RouteNote","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"RouteNote"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/","name":"RouteNote Blog","description":"The World of Digital Music - Distribution - Stores and Free Music","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg","width":799,"height":448,"caption":"Boomplay african music streaming service"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/","name":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth - RouteNote Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c0cf8473ad65e0c00d09ff942bac997d"},"headline":"Music streaming service Boomplay announces 62 million users with major growth","datePublished":"2019-12-12T15:14:21+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-12T14:14:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#webpage"},"wordCount":214,"commentCount":3,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg","keywords":["africa","african music","Boomplay","Boomplay music","growth","merlin","music","music streaming","streaming","streaming service"],"articleSection":["Digital Music News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-streaming-service-boomplay-announces-62-million-users-with-major-growth\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c0cf8473ad65e0c00d09ff942bac997d","name":"Jacca-RouteNote","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/630810cdfb9548b677f11cb2bfaac3b8?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/630810cdfb9548b677f11cb2bfaac3b8?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Jacca-RouteNote"},"description":"Writing about music, listening to music, and occasionally playing music.","sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/CockJacca"],"url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/jacca\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BOOMPLAY.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}