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YouTube Music/Premium has 20 million paid subscribers, 2M for YouTube TV

#YouTube #YouTubeMusic #Google During the Alphabet 2019 Q4 earnings call, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai  provided  an update on how many paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers there are. There were also official figures for cord-cutting service YouTube TV. Last May, Bloomberg  reported  15 million subscribers one year after launch for YouTube Music. Both YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium now combine to have 20 million subscribers. YouTube Music Premium costs $9.99 for ad-free playback, background streaming, and offline downloads. For $2 more, YouTube Premium extends those benefits to all video content across the service. In comparison, Apple Music has  60 million subscribers  as of mid-2019, while Amazon Music  just announced  55 million members and Spotify leads at 113 million. Meanwhile,  last March , YouTube TV was said to have 1 million subscribers. Nearly a year later, this has doubled to 2 million. This comes as  PlayStation Vue  shut do

YouTube Music Is Exploding in Popularity

#YouTubeMusic #Google #MusicStreaming #Singles #Remix  YouTube overhauled its music streaming app in early 2018, and it's taken off since then. The  Alphabet   ( NASDAQ:GOOG )   ( NASDAQ:GOOGL )  subsidiary grew its music streaming app from fewer than 8 million active users at the end of 2017, to more than 77 million active users by the end of 2019, according to data from App Annie. Much of that growth stems from launches in developing markets like India and Brazil, which capitalizes on the popularity of its free video streaming platform on mobile. Spotify   ( NYSE:SPOT )  has contended that YouTube is the biggest free music streaming service in the world since it filed to go public. And since it made its direct listing, YouTube Music has proven a formidable competitor. Spotify still boasts a lot more users than YouTube -- 248 million total including 113 million premium subscribers -- but the success of YouTube cannot be discounted. Lots of free listeners You