



This is very much a mixed blessing: on the one hand, you get a ridiculous amount of music and you’re very likely to find what you’re looking for - even obscure tracks from labels no longer around to make deals with streaming services. While YouTube Music has deals in place with the major record labels to ensure that all the albums you could want are available, it’s also a user-generated content site, which means all sorts of stuff is constantly being uploaded by fans including live recordings, amateur covers and remixes. YouTube Music doesn’t provide any data here, but that might be because it’s near impossible to track. Back in February 2021, the company revealed it had more than 70 million tracks on the service, but given it supposedly adds 60,000 songs a day, it has likely passed the 90 million mark by now. Neither are particularly transparent about the size of their libraries, but it’s easier to hazard a guess with Spotify. For $11.99/$17.99 a month, this feels like a no brainer if you consume a lot of YouTube. This not only pays for two Premium accounts, but compiles a shared playlist mixing up each partners’ most played songs, which is a nice touch.īut YouTube Music has one particularly strong trick up its sleeve: for an extra $2 per month, you can add YouTube Premium to your plan, which removes ads from regular YouTube and allows subscribers to watch YouTube Originals content. Spotify also has a rather neat option for couples that live together called “Duo” priced at $12.99 per month. Both also offer a family plan that covers up to six members of a household: it’s $14.99 for YouTube Music and $15.99 for Spotify. Like pretty much every other music streamer out there, the default price for the two services is $9.99 per month, with a discounted $99.99 per year option and a $4.99-per-month tier for students.
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Obviously if you primarily listen to music on your desktop PC this will be of little benefit, but for mobile users it’s essential.
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Subscribing fixes the drawbacks for both, as well as allowing the downloading of tracks for offline play.īut for YouTube Music, the real game changer is the introduction of background play, which allows the music to keep playing on your phone or tablet while you use other apps or turn your screen off.
