{"id":278600,"date":"2019-06-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vbXVzaWNhbGx5LmNvbS8yMDE5LzA2LzA3L2V0aGlvcGlhbi10ZWxjby1ldGhpby10ZWxlY29tLWxhdW5jaGVzLW11c2ljLXN0cmVhbWluZy1zZXJ2aWNlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:28","slug":"ethio-telecom-launched-the-awtar-music-streaming-app-with-ethiopian-language-catalogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278600","title":{"rendered":"Ethio Telecom launched the Awtar Music streaming app with Ethiopian-language catalogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Music Ally reported that Ethio Telecom had teamed up with Awtar Multimedia to launch Awtar Music, a streaming app built around Ethiopian songs in several of the country\u2019s languages, with options to buy tracks and albums.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethio Telecom launched the Awtar Music streaming app with Ethiopian-language catalogues\" \/>\n<p>Music in Africa said the creators had designed a split so singers, lyricists, arrangers, melodists, and producers each received a share of song profits, which put a state telco at the center of Ethiopia\u2019s early streaming market the way other African operators were doing elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as tech and culture archive, the Music Ally note dates Ethio Telecom\u2019s entry into local music streaming in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2019\/06\/07\/ethiopian-telco-ethio-telecom-launches-music-streaming-service\/\">Music Ally<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read More Ethiopian telco Ethio Telecom launches music-streaming service One of the interesting things about&nbsp;&nbsp;Music AllyOne of the interesting things about the early days of the music-streaming market in Africa is the way telcos are taking a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755067,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278600\/revisions\/755067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}