![]() The new YouTube Music service will be landing in more countries throughout 2018. YouTube Music also adds to the company’s growing number of standalone apps - of which there are currently seven, including YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Go, YouTube Kids, YouTube Gaming, YouTube VR, and YouTube Studio. “But YouTube was made for watching, which meant fans have had to jump back and forth between multiple music apps and YouTube. ![]() “People come to YouTube to be part of music culture and discover new music,” the company said in a statement. Now the company wants to leverage that clout to make its mark in audio-based music - via a single platform that merges video with audio. But its trump card is YouTube, which is among the top video-streaming destinations globally. Google hasn’t really managed to gain the kind of traction that Spotify and Apple Music have found in the music-streaming realm. For that reason, it’s difficult to see YouTube Music proving all that popular without a subscription. Without it, users have to keep the YouTube Music app active in the foreground, meaning that if they start using another app, for example, the music will stop playing. Formerly known as YouTube Red in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Mexico (before its rebrand last month), YouTube Premium will cost an extra £2/€2 on top of the YouTube Music Premium subscription and includes background video playback, downloads, and original YouTube video content, such as Karate Kid spin-off Cobra Kai.īackground playback is a particularly important feature of both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium. In addition to YouTube Music, the company has also expanded the availability of the overarching YouTube Premium service to the aforementioned new markets. The plan includes up to six family members and costs $14.99/£14.99/€14.99 per month. Additionally, YouTube has now officially launched a YouTube Music Premium Family plan, which it apparently hadn’t done at last month’s inaugural launch in the U.S. ![]() YouTube Music is available as a free, ad-supported service, but it also ships with a standalone subscription, priced at £9.99/€9.99 in the U.K. However, you could make it ad-free via a $10/month YouTube Red subscription, which also unlocked a handful of extra features, including offline access, background listening, original video content, and ad-free access to every video on YouTube - not just music. The original YouTube Music was a free, ad-supported service that provided millions of audio- and video-based music recordings. The YouTube Music app had existed in a handful of markets for a few years, but that version was rather different from the one that launched last month. The route to YouTube Music’s launch hasn’t been entirely straightforward. Above: YouTube Music: Offline Road to launch ![]()
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