Category archives: Boomplay

Merlin inks licensing deal in Africa with Boomplay, which has 62m users now

Partnership follows licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal
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Sony inks major licensing deal in Africa with Boomplay (and its 60m users)

Chinese-owned app is currently adding around 2m users every month
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Streamer Boomplay Music Raises $20 million

African based music streamer Boomplay Music has raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand across Africa. The company reports more than 44 million app downloads and is adding an average of 2 million new subscribers monthly. Boomplay is a joint venture of Chinese phone maker Transsion and Chinese…

Africa’s Boomplay Inks WMG Licensing Deal

African streaming and download service Boomplay has inked a direct licensing agreement with Warner Music to bring the company’s global music roster to millions of music fans across the continent. The deal will see Boomplay distributing Warner Music’s extensive catalog of more than one million songs to listeners in countries…

UMG Is First To License Africa’s Top Steamer Boomplay

Universal Music Group has become the first major label to licence popular African music download and streaming service Boomplay. The service, boasts 36 million users in multiple African markets and is adding 2 million users monthly. Before the UMG, Boomplay offered more than two million mostly regional songs and thousands…

Universal becomes first major to license Africa’s biggest streaming platform, Boomplay

Boomplay is jointly owned by two large-scale Chinese companies
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