Top 5 Music and Audio Apps in UAE: Q2 2025 Performance

In the second quarter of 2025, the music and audio app landscape in the United Arab Emirates showed diverse trends across the top 5 applications on a unified platform. This analysis, based on Sensor Tower data, highlights the performance of each app in terms of downloads, revenue, and active users.

Spotify: Music and Podcasts from Spotify AB demonstrated a steady increase in weekly revenue, reaching approximately $8.2K in late April. Weekly downloads fluctuated slightly, peaking at around 15.7K in mid-April, while maintaining a robust active user base of over 560K throughout the quarter.

Anghami: Play music & Podcasts experienced a peak in weekly revenue of about $36.6K at the end of April. Downloads remained stable, averaging around 2K weekly, with active users peaking at over 62K in mid-April.

StarMaker: Sing Karaoke Songs saw revenue rise to approximately $8.1K in early May. Downloads spiked to over 6.2K in mid-April, with active users reaching around 17.6K during the same period.

Pocket FM: Audio Series from Pocket FM Corp. showed a consistent revenue trend, peaking at $1.7K in early June. Downloads varied, with a notable peak of 3.4K at the start of the quarter, while weekly active users hovered around 13K.

Smule: Karaoke, Sing & Record generated weekly revenue close to $3.9K at the end of June. Downloads were highest in early April, reaching approximately 1.9K, and active users fluctuated around 4.2K throughout the quarter.

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