Saavn Radio for iOS now available worldwide, goes out of beta

Saavn, the South Asian and Bollywood music service, today brought its iOS app out of beta and made it available worldwide. The service, which now also links to the user’s Facebook profile enabling them to share the music they are listening with others, has also updated its Android app to enable pre-fetching of songs in playlist for instant playback and persistent login between sessions.
Saavn is also working on J2ME, Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone versions of its app. At the moment, we believe Dhingana, which was recently launched and offers similar services, to be Saavn’s biggest competitor in coming months. The biggest challenge now would be to offer offline music that is downloaded and stored locally to enable users access when they are not connected to the Internet.
The company also revealed some interesting numbers:

• 100,000 new users and over half-a-million new, customized radio stations created by iPhone and iPad users in the first month
• iOS users are streaming are over 18 million songs per month
• Average mobile users create playlists, curate custom radio stations for over 3 hours each month