Top 10 most-downloaded music streaming apps for 2021. One other interesting point: Shazam, which ranked fifth in downloads in 2021, is owned by Apple.) (An important note about Apple Music: it is preloaded on each iPhone and iPad - an interesting antitrust scenario - and therefore does not hit any “most downloaded” lists. Top 10 most-downloaded music and audio apps for 2021: The app is live in Brazil, Indonesia and India.” “That app is Resso, which is owned by Bytedance, maker of TikTok. “While Spotify continues to blow all competitors out of the water, a newcomer has gone from not on the top charts at all last year, to all the way to the second most downloaded music streaming app in the world,” says Apptopia VP of Insights Adam Blacker. Google’s music app, YouTube Music, was third with 79 million, and Amazon Music was seventh with 44 million.)īut there was a very interesting new upstart from a very familiar source that hit the top 10 list despite being available in only three countries. The winner, which more than doubled the global installs of its nearest competitor, is Spotify, which snagged 203 million app installs in 2021. Music and audio is usually an extremely competitive segment, but it’s not even close there. specifically looks a little different, and shows significant strength in video streaming platform HBO Max, which edged out Netflix and Disney+, both of whom were top-10 in 2020, for top streaming service by number of installs in 2021:

App store download rankings