YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and global head of music Lyor Cohen are in India to celebrate the launch of YouTube Music there and announce that the app was downloaded 3 million times in its first week.
That’s 3 times more than Spotify, who had 1 million signups during its first week in India.
Underscoring the importance of Inida as a market, Cohen shared that YouTube’s charts where “week to week, in 2019, an average one-fifth of the entries on the Global Top Songs chart featured Indian artists.”