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Apple Music Now Has Over 10 Million Subscribers After Just 6 Months

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Apple Music has surpassed 10 million subscribers across iOS, Mac, PC, Android and Apple TV in just six months, a milestone that took its largest rival Spotify around six years to accomplish, Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Apple Music, which launched in over 100 countries on June 30, 2015, has cemented its position as the world's second largest streaming music service behind Spotify, which last announced reaching over 20 million paying subscribers and more than 75 million active users three weeks before Apple's streaming service became available.

Spotify was an early entrant in the streaming music market when it launched in Europe in October 2008. The service did not expand to the U.S. until July 2011 due to lengthy negotiations with major record label companies, and it has since launched in nearly 100 countries and territories worldwide. Unlike Apple Music, Spotify also offers a free ad-supported tier with limited features on desktop and mobile.

Music industry analyst Mark Mulligan predicted last month that Apple Music would have 8 million subscribers by the end of 2015, and he expects the service to reach 20 million total users by the end of this year. At that pace, Apple Music could top Spotify as the largest streaming music service by number of subscribers in 2017, assuming that Spotify maintains around its current rate of growth.

Apple has reportedly internally set a goal of reaching 100 million Apple Music subscribers. Tim Cook confirmed 6.5 million paid subscribers last October.

Update: Spotify told Business Insider that it experienced its fastest subscriber growth ever in the second half of 2015, but did not provide an updated subscriber total.

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That's good to hear. However, for those that aren't at all interested in Apple Music as a streaming service, can Apple please make the iOS music app more usable, similar to how it was previously? There is no reason to lump "My Music" into one little tab, and not allow you to edit the tabs at the bottom of the screen at all, to bring back Songs, Artists, Albums, etc.

For music browsing and listening, I still prefer my 6th gen iPod nano, or any of my older iPods, for that matter.
 
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Just because they made 10 million users doesn't mean it's any good. That's just the power of default music app, which the first thing any iOS user will see is "Try Apple Music for free".

If Spotify was part of default music app, it would have 100 million users by now.

Considering Apple has a user base of 800 million iPhone users, 10 million is a surprisingly low number, which actually indicates that Apple Music is a poor product.
 
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It's too expensive for what it is, £120 a year..... I spend less on Music I can own per year. I think I only bought 3 albums in 2015 and that's not even £30 worth, everything else I listen to I already own and have uploaded to my Google Play Music account.

Apple Music is only worthwhile if you listen to a lot of new music each year and the Radio doesn't do it for you.
 
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2 things here:
  • What's the one key word that is missing in this part of the news: "Apple Music has surpassed 10 million subscribers" Hints: 2 syllables and starts with a "p".
  • An awful lot of people got iDevices and other devices that can "subscribe" to Apple Music for Christmas. Free trials should be in large volume on those devices right after Christmas (and that's another hint to the important word missing in the first bullet)
Nevertheless, so many users means it deserves much attention to make it better and better. Hopefully, Apple will give it the attention it needs to win on it's own merits instead of winning on numbers by being the default "stock" app... like Apple Maps is superior(?) to Google Maps because more people use it on iDevices.
 
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Slix said:
That's good to hear. However, for those that aren't at all interested in Apple Music as a streaming service, can Apple please make the iOS music app more usable, similar to how it was previously? There is no reason to lump "My Music" into one little tab, and not allow you to edit the tabs at the bottom of the screen at all, to bring back Songs, Artists, Albums, etc.

For music browsing and listening, I still prefer my 6th gen iPod nano, or any of my older iPods, for that matter.
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Yeah I hate what they've done to the Music app, so much so that I've just decided not to bother with music in my phone anymore. I have a couple of albums but between various app glitches and my frustration I just started removing music from the phone.
 
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Well, the offer and service behind Apple Music is quite promising. Nevertheless I'm surprised that Apple hasn't improved the apps for both OS X and iOS even though acknowledging the average user experience. There's more needed than bugfixing here.
 
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Slix said:
That's good to hear. However, for those that aren't at all interested in Apple Music as a streaming service, can Apple please make the iOS music app more usable, similar to how it was previously? There is no reason to lump "My Music" into one little tab, and not allow you to edit the tabs at the bottom of the screen at all, to bring back Songs, Artists, Albums, etc.
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Do you want efficiency? get a cassette tape and a walkman. Take the tape, drop it in and that is it. Apple made technology clumsy and useless. I mean, when you start to add features not because they are needed but because you need to keep your employees working and show some sort of progress for the monthly board meeting....

I have this predictions that this year tech companies like Apple will start to lose value because people are just fine with what they have. Technology need to evolve based on needs and for the last 3 years we have been getting features tat are just leisure. I mean, now days is a matter of chose and taste, no need.

I have a 42: Samsung HD TV, I do not need a 4K, why? if cable companies still offering a super compress bad resolution HD signal, they are the ones who need to upgrade, not me. My iPhone 5 runs just fine, no need for a new one. The computer I am typing is a 2008 Mac pro with the 30" Apple cinema display, and guess what? I am a manager ata multi channel network. There is no need for a new mac pro unless you are into 3D or who knows what.

So, in the big picture there is no need for new technology at least in the direction things are taking.

Actually, in December I noticed something very bad, I was at Disney and I took the ride of Tomorrowland, and all the things expose to give you a look into the future were just black. I went to Epcot and the same things I saw early 90's. I saw the CES reviews... is like Hollywood... re dos, re makes. That is a convention that you need to go each 10 years and all what they are showing was showed back at Sigraph in 2007.

Any way... my worry is that we may have some sort of crisis and that will affect the economy badly in a few months, usually by Summer you will see some red alarms going off.
 
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everyone hates on apple music but it works OK for me and it's hella cheap for the family (4 users), plus i get a discount from buying iTunes gift cards at 20% off. used to use rdio but clearly apple music put the last nail in their coffin.
 
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I had Spotify for about a year or two and then Apple Music launched. Signed up for the trial and didn't use either service much. Decided to keep Apple Music and ditch Spotify for a couple of reasons.

  1. I grew very tired of the black and green color scheme.
  2. Being able to say "Hey Siri - play whatever song I want/album/genre" is excellent!
  3. Integration
Apple has some work to do on the service/interface for sure but it's a decent start and I am happy with it. I listen to music every so often but not enough to be hard core. I also enjoy having any song I want at my finger tips at any time. I also was never big on music purchasing either. Just casual all around.
 
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