Watch Out, Spotify? YouTube Music Launches May 22

YouTube is officially jumping into the music-streaming infinite with the May 22 launch of YouTube Music.

"The days of jumping back and forth between multiple music apps and YouTube are over," YouTube said in a blog post. "Whether you want to mind, scout or discover, information technology's all hither."

Like Spotify, YouTube will offer a free, advertisement-supported version of YouTube Music; a premium version volition set you back $9.99 per month, but ditches the ads and allows for background listening and downloads.

The Google-owned company promises "official songs, albums, thousands of playlists and artist radio plus YouTube'south tremendous catalog of remixes, alive performances, covers and music videos that yous can't notice anywhere else." YouTube Music volition exist available on mobile, the spider web, and via a new desktop player.

What well-nigh Google Play Music? Nothing volition change there, but subscribers volition also get a YouTube Music Premium membership.

But those who subscribe to YouTube Red, which allows for an advert-complimentary YouTube video experience, will run across a rebrand and a price hike. YouTube Red will become YouTube Premium, and it will at present cost $11.99 per month for new members, up from $9.99, "because it includes our brand new YouTube Music service," YouTube said. Existing members will be grandfathered into the $9.99-per-calendar month price (and new members can still nab the $9.99 toll as of this writing).

YouTube Music volition curlicue out on Tuesday in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and United mexican states; Republic of korea will besides get YouTube Premium that day. Presently, the music service will launch in Republic of austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, French republic, Germany, Republic of ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Espana, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

Well-nigh Chloe Albanesius

Chloe has led PCMag'south news coverage for more than 10 years, editing and writing stories about the innovations that have shaped the concluding decade and the companies behind them. She as well oversees the site'southward how-to coverage. Earlier joining PCMag.com, Chloe was a reporter roofing tech policy on Capitol Hill for The National Periodical's Technology Daily and financial Information technology for Incisive Media in NYC. She's held internships at NBC's Encounter the Printing, washingtonpost.com, the Tate Gallery press office in London, Curl Call, and Congressional Quarterly. She graduated with a bachelor'southward degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.

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