https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/07/05/apple-music-spotify-us-subscribers-2/
Apple Music has more paying subscribers in the United States than Spotify, according to confidential details shared with Digital Music News this morning.
The source, a US-based, major distributor, shared a report detailing the subscriber tallies of several streaming music services, including Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Sirius XM. That report now ranks Apple Music as first in the United States, at least among primarily on-demand music streaming services (Sirius XM Satellite Radio, which operates in North America exclusively, has more than 33 million subscribers).
Both Apple Music and Spotify have more than 20 million subscribers in America, with Apple now a hair ahead. The source requested that we withhold exact subscriber numbers beyond mentioning ’20 million plus,’ to protect confidentiality.
The data for 2018 also shows that Apple is experiencing a far stronger rate-of-growth in the United States, suggesting a wider lead over the coming months. Trial users were not part of the comparison.
I'm ok with this, Spotify Premium is objectively shit.
Shit how?
I'm using YouTube music since it comes with YouTube premium anyway.
I imagine most apple users use apple music because it works well with their device and ecosystem.
I use a combination of Youtube and Spotify. I hate Apple products
Spotify Premium is objectively better than Apple Music in most cases / features. Also cheaper (£4.99/month student plan FTW)
Only think Apple Music is better at, really, is integrating your existing library.
I just stick with Google Music.
Google Music has been my service for a while now, it's actually pretty good.
Good thing that's getting replaced by YouTube Music, then.
tbh the youtube music app isn't bad, and as long as they keep the same library it should be fine
It'll probably live alongside it for 5 years, have no updates besides strange partial UI updates, and have some critical feature removed at some point.
Jeez,Apple really does have a monopoly in the US.
Hope not, I only use youtube music when an artist only uploads on YouTube and I'm using mobile data so I can only stream audio. Other than that google music is my daily driver.
the only thing i hate about spotify is eps aren't listed under the artists albums
How many here do not use any of those services?
Feels like I'm in the majority who still sticks with local music files.
Spotify has a few bugs.
Like my favourite one is where you press "Control + F" to search for a song, and then play the song you want from that search menu, Spotify creates a magical sub-playlist within your playlist that you can't escape from, you have to play a song in your main playlist to get back into things, else you're just stuck shuffling between just the songs you searched for ad infinitum.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/637/40c103f9-4b67-4aed-be39-903f375e2a90/image.png
Or another one related to searching is where you can just type directly into the playlist, but you can only type in one word, if you press the spacebar, it pauses the music and stops typing in the song name. I complained about these issues ages ago to Spotify and they just shrugged at me.
And sometimes you can click on the album art to go to where a song is in your playlist, and sometimes it just doesn't do that.
It's a mess.
If Apple Music is anything like using Apple’s official Podcasts app, then I’m glad I’ve stayed the fuck away from it. I really don’t understand how or why, but software in general over the past few years has really gone to hell in terms of being clunky, featureless and unintuitive. And Apple seems to be at the forefront of that, despite intuitiveness being one of Apple’s traits about a decade ago.
Spotify has been great though. Its user interface is just a pleasure. The only thing that could make Spotify better at the moment is a wider variety of podcasts.
Oh, that's only U.S subscriber count, nevermind.
I've been using Apple Music for a year or so now. My parents bought a family sub and it saves me paying for my no longer student Spotify sub.
Its really hit and miss. They do get almost everything you'd want to listen to. But I've had multiple albums that I've added to my library get switched with their radio edit versions or just straight up removed. The android app is also a total shambles that doesn't respect my car radio controls from time to time.
Streaming services as a whole are pretty similar at this point.
I prefer having the files too, but for me, streaming services are for when i can't get access to my files and i just want to listen to some music for whatever reason..
I have a terabyte of local music both flac and regular mp3 but it's much easier to stream music from a service to my phone than to use network sharing that barely works with anything but windows
Fuck Apple Music tbh
im not using it solely because they shove it down my throat when in my music app
also I get Spotify premium for 3 months for 99 cents. Runs out and they send me another offer for it.
I have to wonder how GPM music works with regards to streaming your own music. Does Google have to pay per stream like Spotify & co, or does the assumption you've paid for it (which can very easily be false, there's no checking at all) count?
I've noticed lately a lot of songs getting removed from my playlists on Spotify. It's making me rethink using them because like, half of my spotify playlist is gone now because they remove stuff without warning yet still list it in the results as if you could still listen to it
The first one to fuck off with the region locking will be the one I use and stop pirating.
This is why I switched.
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WHOA THERE, WE DON'T USE THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE AROUND HERE.
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