Given that the music label reportedly contributed to two dozen of Spotify’s Daily Top 200 Songs chart for the country, how has the move impacted listenership on the app?Īmarjit Singh Batra, MD of Spotify India and general manager, SAMEA (South Asia, Middle East, Africa) fielded this and other questions about the business of audio streaming in an exclusive chat with ET’s Shephali Bhatt. The two parties had failed to negotiate their licensing agreement renewal.

That’s because in March, the Stockholm-based company removed Zee Music’s entire Hindi film music catalogue, including hit albums like Gully Boy, from its app. While leaving the premises, you cannot help but ask if one of these meeting room titles has changed in the last couple of months (it hasn’t, we’re told). A QR code under the signboard leads you directly to that title on the audio-streaming app.

Every meeting room in Spotify’s India office in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla-Complex area is named after a popular local song or a homegrown podcast.

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