There is a new rival for Spotify, and a rival that could not be of a higher level, Youtube Music Key. This morning we were talking about its possible imminent launch and now it's here. Although at the moment it comes in a Beta version, we are still talking about a monthly subscription service that can be used by all users who pay the monthly fee. It arrives just to compete with Spotify, with music without ads, and available offline.
We've known for a long time that YouTube wanted to launch a rival to Spotify and other monthly subscription services, including even Google Play Music. And it has arrived today. They consider themselves to be the largest music service on the planet. And the truth is that users use YouTube a lot to listen to music, both the original music of the artists, as well as versions created by other users and uploaded to YouTube. Today all that is going to change.
Organized music
To begin with, whether you are a YouTube Music Key subscriber or not, you will now find a new section in the YouTube application for Android, iOS and on youtube.com. This section will be dedicated to music exclusively, and will allow access to the official songs of the different artists, and even complete albums, all computerized by YouTube's own content providers, so that it is easy to find, and with loud music. quality.
YouTube Music Key
But the big news comes with YouTube Music Key, a service that begins in Beta. Thanks to this new service we can now listen to music on YouTube without ads, with the screen off, or even while we are using another application. But all this without forgetting a basic characteristic, which is to be able to listen to music offline, without an Internet connection, which is what always differentiates these subscription music services. Its conventional price will be 9,99 euros per month, although it will have a promotional price of 7,99 euros per month.
Will it compete with Google Play Music?
It will not actually compete with Google Play Music, as they will be associated services. In fact, all users who have subscribed to the new YouTube Music Key service will also have a subscription to Google Play Music, in which we will have more than 30 million songs. In addition, it must be borne in mind that YouTube includes a lot of music by artists or simply geek users, who have uploaded their own songs to YouTube, and that they cannot be found in stores or in other services such as Spotify. And there is precisely the key to YouTube Music Key.
How to get it?
But not so fast, because to get it you will have to wait to receive an invitation from YouTube by email inviting you to participate in the service, hence the Beta. So, at least for now, we will still have to wait until we receive the invitations, we do not know if they have already started to send them, or if they will still take a few more days.