Wynk Music was an Indian music streaming service and a digital distributor in 14 languages. Launched on 1 September 2014 by Airtel Digital Limited, and the digital wing of
Bharti Airtel Limited. It was available in India, Sri Lanka, and 15 African countries. It had a program that helped independent artists launch their music. It provided mentorship, distribution support, and the ability to earn from every stream.
In late August 2024, Bharti Airtel decided to partner with
Apple
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to offer
Apple Music
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as their replacement for their current Premium subscription, thus they decided to shut down Wynk Music while all of the staff has relocated to their telecom division. In December 2024, the app was shut down.
History
Wynk Music was launched in 2014 by Bharti Airtel. The app was initially available only to Airtel subscribers, but it was later made available to everyone in 2017.
Wynk Music has quickly become one of the most popular music streaming apps in India. causes for it include its large music library, ad-free experience, affordable pricing, and Airtel's push to it.
Product and service
Wynk Music offers a wide variety of features and services, it has licensed, a large music library with over 24 million songs, Ad-free listening, Offline listening for its premium subscribers, The ability to create and share playlists and ability to listen to music on any devices.
Wynk music premium service is bundled with many services of Airtel worldwide and other subscription-based web-streaming players in India.
Partnership
Its partnership with
Dolby Laboratories
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offers users
Dolby Atmos technology.
It offers the immersive audio experience of Dolby Atmos to its users without any additional charges was their exciting offer.
See also
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JioSaavn
JioSaavn is an Indian music streaming service and a digital distributor of music in Hindi, Marathi, English, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Chhattisgarhi and other regional languages of India. Since it wa ...
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Gaana
Gaana (or Gānā) is a genre of Tamil music, which is sung in the Madras Bashai dialect of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is Rapping, rap-like "collection of rhythms, beats and sensibilities native to the Madras people." It evolved over the pa ...
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Spotify
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YouTube Music
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Apple Music
Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users can select music to stream to their device on-demand, or listen to existing playlists. The service also includes the sister internet radio stations Apple Musi ...
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yMusic
References
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Android (operating system) software
Online music stores of India
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Indian companies established in 2015
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Online music database clients
Music streaming services
Bharti Airtel