In short, many users will be able to continue using Google Play Music for now, but its features will eventually be integrated into YouTube Music and they’ll be forced to migrate. In fact, the company plans on removing its artist hub, which allows independent artists to upload their own content to Google Play Music and track plays and payments, on April 30, 2019. Elias Roman, product manager for both YouTube Music and Google Play Music, clarified in an interview with The Verge that Google currently hopes to transition all Google Play Music users over to YouTube Music some time in 2019 at the earliest. In the original blog post announcing the changes to YouTube Music, Google claimed that “If you use Google Play Music, nothing will change,” but recently, the company has changed its story. That now appears to be Google’s long-term goal, but things are going to be a little more confusing in the short term. Naturally, with all this streamlining, you’d think Google would just replace Google Play Music with the new YouTube Music experience, right? A lot of news websites speculated as much when the initial announcement hit, claiming that the long-standing service will eventually be replaced by the new YouTube Music. Where does that leave Google Play Music? Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends You can now get YouTube Music separately for $9.99, though you’ll probably want to spend the extra $2 for the Premium features. So how much will it cost you? YouTube will give you three free months of YouTube Premium (which includes YouTube Music), but will then charge $11.99 a month. Currently, the two services are available in the following 17 countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. YouTube Premium gives you an ad-free experience on YouTube, with some additional features and access to YouTube Music Premium.īoth YouTube Music and YouTube Premium went live on June 18, 2018. YouTube Music Premium lets you stream music without ads, and has a few extra perks. So to break it down: YouTube Music lets you stream music with ads. YouTube Premium includes the new YouTube Music Premium experience, though, so its price is now $12 per month, as opposed to the previous $10 price tag for YouTube Red. YouTube Red is now called YouTube Premium, and it will still provide an ad-free experience across all of YouTube, along with background play, the ability to download videos to watch offline, and access to YouTube Originals. There’s a free version with ads, or you can pay $10 a month for YouTube Music Premium, which offers “ background listening, downloads, and an ad-free experience.” It has access to thousands of playlists, songs, albums, artists, and more, and it has neat features like the ability to search for songs via vague descriptions or lyrics. Back in May 2018, YouTube announced a completely revamped and reimagined version of YouTube Music.
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