Apple Music is a week old, and has started disseminating its streaming data to record companies.
But where is that data coming from – and what is Apple Music’s true potential around the world?
The platform has launched in 100 territories worldwide and, in terms of its potential to legitimise huge chunks of piracy-dominated territories, some will excite labels more than others.
Apple Music is now officially in Russia, for example, a territory that’s home to 144m people but contributed just $72.8m to the global record industry last year.
Russia has recently passed some strong-arm anti-piracy legislation, so Apple‘s timing couldn’t be better.
Then there’s India; a country with a population of 1.2bn people, where free streaming services are beginning to dominate the market.
You can see the full list of territories that Apple Music – along with its three-month free trial offer and global radio station Beats 1 – has now arrived below.
One country that record labels must be disappointed not to see on the roll-call is China, although Apple Music has been launched in Hong Kong.
Africa, Middle East and India
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Botswana
- Cape Verde
- Egypt
- Fiji
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Mauritius
- Mongolia
- Nigeria
- Nepal
- Niger
- Oman
- Papua New Guinea
- Sri Lanka
- Swaziland
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Turkmenistan
- Tajikistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Zimbabwe
Asia Pacific
- Australia
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Laos
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Micronesia, Fed States Of
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Europe
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Anguilla
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Grenada
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
The United States and Canada
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