Omnifone Accelerates LINE MUSIC's Expansion

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Omnifone, the leading B2B provider of digital music services, confirms its partnership with LINE MUSIC, with plans to support the expansion of its international catalogue by millions of tracks.

LINE MUSIC is the Japanese on-demand music subscription service from LINE, the global messenger service boasting 211 million active monthly users in 230 countries. With full integration into the LINE messenger application, users can effortlessly send music and playlists to friends and groups in chat screens, or share music via their timelines. LINE MUSIC is available on iOS, Android and web, gaining 4 million active users since its launch in June.

The partnership provides LINE with access to Omnifone's global music licensing expertise and end-to-end content services. LINE MUSIC hopes to provide a wider range of western and European artists to its users.

Omnifone's music cloud, MusicStation, hosts 50 million tracks, the world's largest collection of studio quality audio. It provides partners like LINE with unprecedented acceleration capabilities. Phil Sant, Omnifone's co-founder and Chief Engineer said, "we do the vital undifferentiated heavy-lifting, the music industry technology infrastructure that allows our partners to focus on the things that add value to them; the exciting features that enable them to grow their services more quickly."

"With global messenger giant LINE Corporation at the helm, LINE MUSIC has established itself as one of the front runners in the music subscription market. We're delighted to be working with LINE MUSIC to support its continued growth", commented Jeff Hughes, Chief Executive, Omnifone."

Jun Masuda, Chief Executive at LINE MUSIC, added: "Working with a UK-based global music service provider will help us to enrich our popular music service with a whole host of new international artists for our users to enjoy. We're thrilled to be working with Omnifone's licensing team."