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YouTube may soon sing the tune of streaming music with ain service

YouTube may soon sing the tune of streaming music with own service

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YouTube is reportedly readying its own streaming music service for afterwards this year, equally Google is preparing to accept the necessary steps to compete with services like Spotify, Pandora and Soundhound.

The news comes at a time when the streaming music manufacture is growing stronger by the 2nd, with more than and more consumers making use of the various tune services every solar day.

Though the record manufacture is still skeptical about streaming music equally a feasible revenue source, major players like Apple tree (rumored) and Beats by Dr. Dre are regularly inbound the crowded marketplace.

Withal, the one big advantage YouTube will have on the competition is its 800 million-plus monthly users.

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Sources in the record manufacture revealed to Fortune the prospective program, which was also apparently confirmed by an anonymous source from Google itself.

YouTube would characteristic a free subscription that would include ads while listening besides as a paid advert-free version that would include undisclosed special features.

These aforementioned special features would also be offered in a new paid subscription-based version of Google Play, the Android music app.

Though you can already purchase, listen to, and store music in Google Play, the paid subscription would include boosted perks.

Despite Google and YouTube'due south pedigree, the recording industry is still wary of adopting a freemium model when it comes to music catalogs.

Information technology will likely be awhile until YouTube's streaming service is ready, which gives Google plenty of time to convince the tape industry and the listening public that this service, if it is indeed in the works, is a chart topper.

TechRadar asked YouTube for comment, and received this response from a spokesperson: "While we don't annotate on rumor or speculation, there are some content creators that think they would benefit from a subscription revenue stream in addition to ads, and so we're looking at that."

Stay tuned.

Via CNET